Nativescript-cli: On build time the pod included in the plugin can't be installed (sandbox problem)

[nikolay-diyanov]

Hey guys,

I have a project which is working with a plugin that has a cocoapod inside it. So, on build time, I get:

Installing pods...
Processing node_modules failed. Error: Command sandbox-pod failed with exit code 1 Error output:
[!] Unable to load a specification for the plugin /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/cocoapods-plugins-0.4.2
[!] Unable to load a specification for the plugin /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/cocoapods-search-0.1.0
[!] Unable to load a specification for the plugin /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/cocoapods-stats-0.6.2
[!] Unable to load a specification for the plugin /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/cocoapods-try-0.5.1
[!] Unable to load a specification for the plugin /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/cocoapods-trunk-0.6.4
[!] Unable to load a specification for the plugin /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/cocoapods-stats-0.5.3
[!] Unable to load a specification for the plugin /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/cocoapods-trunk-0.6.1
[!] Unable to load a specification for the plugin /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/cocoapods-trunk-0.6.0
[!] Unable to load a specification for the plugin /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/cocoapods-try-0.4.5
[!] Unable to load a specification for the plugin /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/cocoapods-try-0.4.4
/Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/cocoapods-0.39.0/lib/cocoapods/user_interface/error_report.rb:77:in ': Operation not permitted - git (Errno::EPERM) from /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/cocoapods-0.39.0/lib/cocoapods/user_interface/error_report.rb:77:in'
from /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/cocoapods-0.39.0/lib/cocoapods/user_interface/error_report.rb:125:in git_information' from /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/cocoapods-0.39.0/lib/cocoapods/user_interface/error_report.rb:38:inreport'
from /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/cocoapods-0.39.0/lib/cocoapods/command.rb:61:in report_error' from /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/claide-0.9.1/lib/claide/command.rb:374:inhandle_exception'
from /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/claide-0.9.1/lib/claide/command.rb:315:in rescue in run' from /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/claide-0.9.1/lib/claide/command.rb:303:inrun'
from /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/cocoapods-0.39.0/lib/cocoapods/command.rb:47:in run' from /Library/Ruby/Gems/2.0.0/gems/cocoapods-0.39.0/bin/pod:44:in

'

I know the workaround, it is to go to: /Users/[USER NAME]/.nvm/versions/node/v0.12.7/lib/node_modules/nativescript/config/config.json
and set "USE_POD_SANDBOX": false

But still, it is interesting why this happens at all.

[jlooper]

I just encountered the same, using the Firebase plugin. :(

For what it's worth, the path I had to find to change the config.json flag was /usr/local/lib/node_modules/nativescript/config

[teobugslayer]

The sandbox-pods executable uses Mac OS sandboxing to voluntarily relinquish some of its permissions. On the other hand, pods has unrestricted access to the machine. We are defaulting to sandboxing, so that users have consistent experience in AppBuilder and {N} CLI.

[teobugslayer]

This is documented in https://github.com/NativeScript/docs/pull/259, will close this issue.

[zb0t]

@jlooper Thanks this helped me greatly

[AhsanAyaz]

@jlooper thanks.. you're a life saver 👍

[jonathan-casarrubias]

@jlooper +1

[nabito]

Thanks @jlooper