#8615·parcel

Parcel Serve 2.8.0 randomly crashes while rebuilding

Author: roddyprattCreated Nov 9, 2022Updated Aug 21, 2026
Labels:bug: BugWindows

After editing an HTML file and resaving, parcel will occasionally bomb out with the following trace.

Not repeatable, but this never happened with the previous 2.7.0 build.

Server running at http://localhost:1234
\ Building index.html...
node:internal/fs/utils:347
    throw err;
    ^

Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, unlink 'C:\Rascular\ViewMaster\dist\index.html.2508.m'
    at Object.unlinkSync (node:fs:1767:3)
    at NodeFS.unlinkSync (C:\Rascular\ViewMaster\.pnp.cjs:5919:24)
    at makeCallSync.subPath.subPath (C:\Rascular\ViewMaster\.pnp.cjs:8166:26)
    at ZipOpenFS.makeCallSync (C:\Rascular\ViewMaster\.pnp.cjs:8379:14)
    at ZipOpenFS.unlinkSync (C:\Rascular\ViewMaster\.pnp.cjs:8165:17)
    at VirtualFS.unlinkSync (C:\Rascular\ViewMaster\.pnp.cjs:7463:24)
    at PosixFS.unlinkSync (C:\Rascular\ViewMaster\.pnp.cjs:7463:24)
    at URLFS.unlinkSync (C:\Rascular\ViewMaster\.pnp.cjs:7463:24)
    at WriteStream.<anonymous> (C:\Rascular\ViewMaster\.yarn\__virtual__\@parcel-fs-virtual-99d78ac16b\0\cache\@parcel-fs-npm-2.8.0-30a533924e-75d79963a1.zip\node_modules\@parcel\fs\lib\index.js:1019:83)
    at Object.onceWrapper (node:events:628:26) {
  errno: -4058,
  syscall: 'unlink',
  code: 'ENOENT',
  path: 'C:\\Rascular\\ViewMaster\\dist\\index.html.2508.m'

Your Environment

Software Version(s)
Parcel 2.8.0
Node 16.18.0
npm/Yarn Yarn 3.2.4
Operating System Windows 11