Npm package-lock.json permission denied?

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My site name: theoparisdesigns.netlify.com or theoparis.com
github repo: GitHub - theoparis/website-old: creepinson's website
The problem:
So I’ve never had this issue before as netify has built fine yesterday, but when I tried to push some new code it says this in the logs and gives some other errors due to this:

4:31:44 PM: Installing NPM modules using NPM version 6.14.4

4:31:45 PM: npm WARN saveError ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/package.json'

4:31:45 PM: npm WARN saveError EACCES: permission denied, open '/package-lock.json.3135081923'

4:31:45 PM: npm WARN enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/package.json'

4:31:45 PM: npm WARN !invalid#2 No description

4:31:45 PM: npm WARN !invalid#2 No repository field.

4:31:45 PM: npm WARN !invalid#2 No README data

4:31:45 PM: npm WARN !invalid#2 No license field.

Not sure what to do as it keeps causing the build to fail due to it not installing node_modules because of these errors. I tried clearing the cache with the retry deploy option.

EDIT: I think I may have found the problem… I was originally using a pnpm monorepo and had set this build prefix setting in netlify.toml from this other post here. After I removed the monorepo it seems like I still had this:
NPM_FLAGS = “–prefix=/”

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Hmm, now it seems to be referencing itself:
enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, access ‘/opt/build/repo/node_modules/client’

The package.json name field is “client”, but why would it be trying to reference itself? It works locally by the way.

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Ok, this is weird. There is no “server” folder here anymore, but there was in the past when I was using the monorepo. It keeps thinking theres a monorepo but theres not anymore. I already said I tried clearing netlify’s build cache.

8:27:34 PM: npm WARN checkPermissions Missing write access to /opt/build/repo/node_modules/client
8:27:34 PM: npm WARN checkPermissions Missing write access to /opt/build/repo/node_modules/server

EDIT: So I cleared the build cache like 50 times and now it finally works :man_shrugging:

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