Getting an issue working with Grunt in Magento 2

Question

I'm getting this issue after run grunt exec:<theme>, this shows up:

Processed Area: frontend, Locale: en_US, Theme: Ids/prueba, File type: less. [Magento\Framework\Exception\FileSystemException]

Cannot create a symlink for "/usr/local/devs/magento2/htdocs/vendor/magento/theme-frontend-blank/web/css/source/_reset.less" and place it to "/usr/local/devs/magento2/htdocs/pub/static/frontend/Ids/prueba/en_US/css/source/_reset.less" Warning!file_get_contents(/usr/local/devs/magento2/htdocs/var/cache//mage-tags/mage---e39_INTERCEPTION): failed to open stream: No such file or directory

dev:source-theme:deploy [--type="..."] [--locale="..."] [--area="..."] [--theme="..."] [file1] ... [fileN]

Exited with code: 1. Warning: Task "exec:prueba" failed. Use --force to continue.

And after i run grunt refresh, shows the same after it cleans all the paths.

Now, running the command for the bin/magento dev:source-theme:deploy got this:

Processed Area: frontend, Locale: en_US, Theme: Magento/luma, File type: less.

[Magento\Framework\Exception\FileSystemException]

Cannot create a symlink for "/usr/local/devs/magento2/htdocs/vendor/magento/theme-frontend-blank/web/css/source/_reset.less" and place it to "/usr/local/devs/mage
nto2/htdocs/pub/static/frontend/Magento/luma/en_US/css/source/_reset.less"

dev:source-theme:deploy [--type="..."] [--locale="..."] [--area="..."] [--theme="..."] [file1] ... [fileN]

I was triyng to fix this by following a lot of instructions on other issues already, nothing worked.

Any ideas why this might be happening? I have a VM configured running of Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS , and have node 5.4.1 with npm 3.3.12

Answer 1

I asked for a bounty, but these seems to be fixed after re run chmod 777 to pub.

Its very hard to develop in magento 2.

Edit:

Open up app/etc/di.xml and find the virtualType name="developerMaterialization" section. In that section you'll find an item name="view_preprocessed" that needs to be modified or deleted. You can modify it by changing the contents from Magento\Framework\App\View\Asset\MaterializationStrategy\Symlink to Magento\Framework\App\View\Asset\MaterializationStrategy\Copy

Delete the files under pub/static to get rid of any existing symlinks. You may want to be careful not to delete the .htaccess file.

Answer 2

Maybe this helps

Execute the following command in your terminal, adapt Placeholders accordingly:

VBoxManage setextradata YOURVMNAME VBoxInternal2/SharedFoldersEnableSymlinksCreate/YOURSHAREFOLDERNAME 1

And verify it by the command VBoxManage getextradata YOURVMNAME enumerate

Answer 3

I had the same issue with grunt throwing up this error when running grunt exec: <theme> and I realised that I didn't run my command prompt in administrator mode.

Hopefully this might help someone - obviously it might not be the contributing factor, but you never know!