This is related to the following: Yarn: Permission denied
We run sudo npm install -g serverless in an earlier step and then get randomly hit with bash permission denials like this:
There is no consistency behind the failures and can be easily resolved by a re-run. Obviously this isn’t ideal as it distracts our dev team. Has anyone found solutions to this?
Hello @djakaitis,
Welcome to the forum.
Was serverless installed as a global npm module?
npm install -g serverless
You will need to install CLI tools as global modules to use them directly. Otherwise you could point to serverless via
.node_modules/.../sls package
Let us know how it works out 
@KyleTryon Yes – sorry I missed the -g flag in my original post. We are installing globally.
Installing the npm module globally should also mean that using the binary would require sudo no? As in:
sudo sls package
This wouldn’t explain why it sometimes works though.
Was this issue ever solved?
We are installing Serverless with
sudo npm install -g serverless
and also seeing this intermittent error when calling sls deploy subsequently.