How to release a locked file on Azure Web Apps? (formerly: jspm install issues)

Asked By: Anonymous

Until the latest version of aurelia beta, I was happily deploying to Azure running jspm update as part of the deployment command.
However, since the latest beta, update fails with


err Error: EPERM: operation not permitted, rename 'D:[email protected].0.2distamd' -> 'D:[email protected]eta.1.0.2'
at Error (native)


In an attempt to resolve this myself I have used the following at the Kudu command prompt:

jspm clean

jspm install aurelia-templating

jspm update aurelia-templating

Needless to say running jspm update on my local machine works fine, which strongly suggests that this is a permissions problem in Azure in D:LocalLocalAppData.

Is there some way to change the permissions in this folder, or is this a problem with the aurelia-templating package itself?

Solution

Answered By: Anonymous

To fix file locking issues, just restart your Web App from the portal. This will cause a cold-restart to happen. If you’re running a production site, be aware of this downtime.