I got this on Vercel when deploying after changing my repo name in an app using the pnpm package manager.
Running build in Cleveland, USA (East) – cle1
Cloning github.com/myorg/myrepo (Branch: mybranch, Commit: 8dd529e)
Skipping build cache, deployment was triggered without cache.
Cloning completed: 1.683s
Running "vercel build"
Vercel CLI 31.2.3
Detected `pnpm-lock.yaml` version 6 generated by pnpm 8...
Installing dependencies...
Lockfile is up to date, resolution step is skipped
Progress: resolved 1, reused 0, downloaded 0, added 0
Packages: +1073
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Packages are hard linked from the content-addressable store to the virtual store.
Content-addressable store is at: /vercel/.local/share/pnpm/store/v3
Virtual store is at: node_modules/.pnpm
Progress: resolved 1073, reused 0, downloaded 32, added 32
Progress: resolved 1073, reused 0, downloaded 120, added 119
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Progress: resolved 1073, reused 0, downloaded 1073, added 1073, done
ERROR Symlink path is the same as the target path (/vercel/path0/node_modules/next)
pnpm: Symlink path is the same as the target path (/vercel/path0/node_modules/next)
at symlinkDir (/pnpm8/node_modules/pnpm/dist/pnpm.cjs:101313:15)
at symlinkDirectRootDependency (/pnpm8/node_modules/pnpm/dist/pnpm.cjs:135270:58)
at async /pnpm8/node_modules/pnpm/dist/pnpm.cjs:183785:11
at async Promise.all (index 76)
at async linkDirectDepsOfProject (/pnpm8/node_modules/pnpm/dist/pnpm.cjs:183783:7)
at async Promise.all (index 0)
at async linkDirectDeps (/pnpm8/node_modules/pnpm/dist/pnpm.cjs:183723:34)
at async headlessInstall (/pnpm8/node_modules/pnpm/dist/pnpm.cjs:184134:26)
at async _install (/pnpm8/node_modules/pnpm/dist/pnpm.cjs:190692:33)
at async mutateModules (/pnpm8/node_modules/pnpm/dist/pnpm.cjs:190559:23)
Error: Command "pnpm install" exited with 1
What did I do wrong, how do I fix this? What is this error even saying, and why might it happen?
I got the same error when testing some local libraries. In my package.json I was importing the lib with:
"<name-of-your-lib>": "link:../"
If you have something similar, make sure the path is right, in my case the library is in the above folder, so ../
(In my case I had to change the link path to a wrong one "../../", install, and then go back to the right one and install again, by some magic it worked)
To find out if you have any links, run:
npm ls -g --depth=0 --link=true
If you have it, you can use the
npm unlink