Incubator-superset: Was unable to import superset Error: [Errno 20] Not a directory: '/home/superset/superset/static/assets/package.json'

[mikexfreeze]

Superset version

release--0.3

Expected results

Actual results

fail run

Steps to reproduce

git clone https://github.com/apache/incubator-superset/
cd incubator-superset/contrib/docker
# prefix with SUPERSET_LOAD_EXAMPLES=yes to load examples:
docker-compose run --rm superset ./docker-init.sh
# you can run this command everytime you need to start superset now:
docker-compose up

in the end of docker-compose run --rm superset ./docker-init.sh after create user command:
"Was unable to import superset Error: [Errno 20] Not a directory: '/home/superset/superset/static/assets/package.json'"
then docker-compose up run failed with some node.js error.

it looks like in docker-compose.yml:
# this is needed for development, remove with SUPERSET_ENV=production
- ../../superset:/home/superset/superset
copy command didn't work, I found below superset/static path there is a alias file, my system is ubuntu 16.
and I run those well on macOX.
is there any idea about what's going on? thanks a lot

[kirankumarpv]

Hi,

This is the issue when I tried to do the build on Windows as well. It seems the issue comes from file '/home/superset/superset/static/assets' being created as a soft link to point to ../assets (which is actual directory where all assets are there).

The soft links doesn't seem to work well on Windows. So i believe the same may be the issue in Ubuntu.

For me, the way i have overcome this issue is to remove the 'assets' file in /home/superset/superset/static/assets and copy the '/home/superset/superset/assets' directory to '/home/superset/superset/assets' and after that all my builds worked.

[brahmachen]

same problem， do you have better solution?

[mikexfreeze]

@kirankumarpv thank you, yesterday I do the same thing now it can run.

[brahmachen]

A better solution is, you can create a Directory Junction by this command on Windows:
>mklink /J "assets" "../assets"
then add this folder into .gitignore

[kuz30]

6225 related

[hinzinho]

I tried both the mklink command and copy the assets directory into that didn't work. I was able to get this working is by adding this line to the docker-compose.yml file under volumes.

- ../../superset/assets:/home/superset/superset/static/assets

[mleandroj18]

copy the contents of the \incubator-superset-master\supersetassets folder in incubator-superset-master\superset\staticassets and renaming the assets to assets2 file for example

[mingchau]

A better solution is, you can create a Directory Junction by this command on Windows:
>mklink /J "assets" "../assets"
then add this folder into .gitignore

Need to switch to the directory incubator-superset\superset\static and delete or remove the assets file.
Then issue the command mklink /J "assets" "../assets" in cmd

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[sarithapodali]

I encounter a similar issue with /app/superset/static/assets/version_info.json.
https://github.com/apache/incubator-superset/issues/8804#issue-535986551