Why I am getting this error message when I run react js project first time in my system?

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Vikram Shekhawat picture Vikram Shekhawat · May 24, 2020 · Viewed 25.4k times · Source
  1. When I run npm start, I get this error message:

Error from chokidar (C:): Error: EBUSY: resource busy or locked, lstat 'C:\hiberfil.sys' Error from chokidar (C:): Error: EBUSY: resource busy or locked, lstat 'C:\pagefile.sys' Error from chokidar (C:): Error: EBUSY: resource busy or locked, lstat 'C:\swapfile.sys' Error from chokidar (C:\node_modules): Error: EBUSY: resource busy or locked, lstat 'C:\hiberfil.sys' Error from chokidar (C:\node_modules): Error: EBUSY: resource busy or locked, lstat 'C:\pagefile.sys' Error from chokidar (C:\node_modules): Error: EBUSY: resource busy or locked, lstat 'C:\swapfile.sys' Error from chokidar (C:\node_modules): Error: EBUSY: resource busy or locked, lstat 'C:\hiberfil.sys' Error from chokidar (C:\node_modules): Error: EBUSY: resource busy or locked, lstat 'C:\pagefile.sys' Error from chokidar (C:\node_modules): Error: EBUSY: resource busy or locked, lstat 'C:\swapfile.sys'

Answer

kartik tyagi picture kartik tyagi · Jun 29, 2020

follow the below steps:

  1. Delete node_modules folder.
  2. run npm install .
  3. run npm cache clean .

*first 2 steps worked for me.

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