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Internal Error: EACCES: permission denied, symlink '../lib/node_modules/corepack/dist/pnpm.js' -> #5

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@dlavey

While trying to create the dev container in VS code on a Mac I get the following error:

Running the postCreateCommand from devcontainer.json...

[2925 ms] Start: Run in container: /bin/sh -c container setup && corepack enable && yarn install
Configuration file: True
Creating Home Assistant user dev
Auth created
Checking HACS version...
Installing HACS 2.0.5
HACS 2.0.5 installed
Internal Error: EACCES: permission denied, symlink '../lib/node_modules/corepack/dist/pnpm.js' -> '/usr/local/share/nvm/versions/node/v24.15.0/bin/pnpm'
at async Object.symlink (node:internal/fs/promises:1002:10)
at async EnableCommand.generatePosixLink (/usr/local/share/nvm/versions/node/v24.15.0/lib/node_modules/corepack/dist/lib/corepack.cjs:23218:5)
at async Promise.all (index 0)
at async EnableCommand.execute (/usr/local/share/nvm/versions/node/v24.15.0/lib/node_modules/corepack/dist/lib/corepack.cjs:23199:5)
at async EnableCommand.validateAndExecute (/usr/local/share/nvm/versions/node/v24.15.0/lib/node_modules/corepack/dist/lib/corepack.cjs:20278:22)
at async _Cli.run (/usr/local/share/nvm/versions/node/v24.15.0/lib/node_modules/corepack/dist/lib/corepack.cjs:21215:18)
at async Object.runMain (/usr/local/share/nvm/versions/node/v24.15.0/lib/node_modules/corepack/dist/lib/corepack.cjs:23704:19)

What's next:
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[15824 ms] postCreateCommand from devcontainer.json failed with exit code 1. Skipping any further user-provided commands.

Mac OS: Tahoe 26.2
Docker Desktop: 4.7.4
VS Code: 1.121.0

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