New app "react-native start" return error without "sudo"

[mnlbox]

Description

Later I can't init project without sudo until I saw this issue and run sudo chmod 777 /home/xxxxx/.babel.json, now I can init project without sudo (like react-native init AppName) but when I create a simple project (just a project init) and try running this by react-native start it's return bellow message:

Loading dependency graph...(node:13642) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection (rejection id: 1): Error: EACCES: permission denied, open '/tmp/haste-map-react-native-packager-1-c06bcb90a866fe5fba0c98b29c4752c1'

When I use sudo react-native start it's working well. Why it's need sudo? How we can fix it?

Reproduction Steps

Create new project with:

react-native init TestApp

Change to this project directory:

cd TestApp

Try start app:

react-native start

Sample Code

Just simple hello world.

Solution

Run with sudo

Additional Information

• React Native version: 0.45.1
• Platform: both
• Development Operating System: Linux
• Build tools: React V. 16.0.0-alpha.12

[hramos]

You shouldn't need to use sudo. Can you provide more details about your OS, which steps did you follow to set up your dev environment?

[mnlbox]

@hramos I used https://facebook.github.io/react-native/docs/getting-started.html and install react native CLI.

npm install -g react-native-cli

Use OpenJDK
and other steps based on above tutorial.
My OS is Linux Mint 18.1.

[hramos]

Did you install watchman?

[mnlbox]

@hramos No because docs said that it's optional.

[hramos]

Please give that a try. It's less straightforward to install on Linux so it was marked as optional, but there may be certain situations where the tooling assumes watchman is installed.

[mnlbox]

I don't understand so why it's working well with sudo? 🤔

[mnlbox]

Any suggestion about this?

[hramos]

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[simplenotezy]

I receive the error:

 Watchman:  watchman --no-pretty get-sockname returned with exit code=1, signal=null, stderr= 2017-10-12T20:19:24,539: [2552390464] opendir(/usr/local/var/run/watchman/simplenotezy-state): Permission denied

[vishnumohan89]

After installing watchman, my issue got fixed