Bower jquery Installation failing

Question

On my project while I'm trying to install bower install jquery after some time its shows the following error. But for bootstrap it worked perfectly. The error is

Resource Busy of locked

bower install popper.js --save
bower                     invalid-meta for:C:\Users\asm morshed\Desktop\webTest\bower.json
bower                     invalid-meta The "name" is recommended to be lowercase, can contain digits, dots, dashes
bower popper.js#*           not-cached https://github.com/FezVrasta/popper.js.git#*
bower popper.js#*              resolve https://github.com/FezVrasta/popper.js.git#*
bower popper.js#*             download https://github.com/FezVrasta/popper.js/archive/v1.14.3.tar.gz
events.js:183
      throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
      ^

Error: EBUSY: resource busy or locked, rename 'C:\Users\ASMMOR~1\AppData\Local\Temp\DESKTOP-9Q2LRB9-asm morshed\bower\3ced9414d81149364fae3ce47bc0d427-3756-zLrkYS\archive.tar.gz.2593295678' -> 'C:\Users\ASMMOR~1\AppData\Local\Temp\DESKTOP-9Q2LRB9-asm morshed\bower\3ced9414d81149364fae3ce47bc0d427-3756-zLrkYS\archive.tar.gz'

actually I can't udenstand what is happening there. Please help me to find out the error. Thank you.

Answer 1

Bower is trying to rename an archive file it downloaded, but the file is used by another process as well. Sometimes it's an Explorer or cli window you need to close. I used to get such errors quite often and sometimes the only option to find and kill the process in question is to restart the system.