more Extracting tar content of undefined failed woes in yarn 1.17.3

[dagda1]

I am using yarn 1.17.3

Do you want to request a feature or report a bug?
bug

What is the current behavior?

An example of what is happening is here:

Intermittent Extracting tar content of undefined failed, the file appears to be corrupt: "EEXIST: file already exists, mkdir '/home/jenkins-slave/.cache/yarn/v4/npm-body-parser-1.18.3-5b292198ffdd553b3a0f20ded0592b956955c8b4/node_modules/body-parser'"

Happens occasionally and can be any dependency.

There are many, many, many similar issues on the issue tracker including #7087, #6755, #6312

Most say it is a git URL in the package.json or lock file but I don't have any of those.

Other solutions say to use yarn install --network-concurrency 1

But this is a poor solution in a CI pipeline with lots of builds at any time.

If the current behavior is a bug, please provide the steps to reproduce.

I cannot reproduce it consistently, seems to happen when the CI server isunder load.

What is the expected behavior?

No cache problems

Please mention your node.js, yarn and operating system version.

node 8.11.3

[iamdanie]

+1 . Happening with Bitrise CI

[dannycoulombe]

Same happening here..

[arikanmstf-tw]

having the same issue with yarn 1.22.4

[alecgerona]

Happening with yarn 1.22.4. Gitlab CI. Not reproducible on local machine however.

[ohana54]

FYI, I attempted to solve one of the root causes for this issue in #8182, still waiting for someone to review it.

[alecgerona]

For anyone still needing a solution, I've changed our git repo dependency to remove its prepare/postinstall scripts and just commit the dist folder for them.

[curiousercreative]

Also experiencing on 1.22.4 and like @alecgerona it seems to coincide with a package that has a prepare script. Running yarn install enough times and one install succeeded :(

[nathanKramer]

I've been having this issue and fixed it by moving from a parallel install of dependencies to synchronous (two different yarn install commands for a server/client in a mono-repo).

Not sure if that will be helpful to anyone.