EBUSY: resource busy or locked, unlink

Question

Sometimes when I try to launch the angular-cli command :

ng build --app myApplication -w

I get the following error :

EBUSY: resource busy or locked, unlink 'C:\...\inline.bundle.js'

Any idea to overcome this problem?

score 24 · Accepted Answer · answered May 30 '20 at 15:26

24

I had the same problem with google-services.json when trying to deploy the app to the device.

EBUSY: resource busy or locked, unlink 'C:\...\google-services.json'

Solution: Open task manager on windows and kill the Java(TM) Platform SE Binary process in task manager.

answered May 30 '20 at 15:26

Carlos Silva

this should be the accepted answer according to votes – afe Dec 11 '20 at 08:11
In my case there were 3 processes in task manager -> Details. I had to end all of them – Gilbert Jan 10 '21 at 12:15

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 06 '21 at 11:44

1

here is a better workaround (bash on windows)

# for some reason keep getting UBUSY error so kill process
echo "killing any java.exe tasks"
cmd '/C TASKKILL /f /im java.exe'

answered Mar 06 '21 at 11:44

Rhubarb65

The accepted answer works most of the time but this command is also working. – Mike Becatti May 04 '21 at 17:18

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