Deploy did not succeed: Build cancelled, found file owned by root

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Hi Netlify team,

I’m trying to deploy a Microsoft Teams bot using the Deploy to Netlify button with this repository: GitHub - trycourier/courier-netlify-msteams

When deploying, I’m getting this error:

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12:32:22 PM: Deploy did not succeed: Build cancelled, found file owned by root

Some interesting findings:

  1. Locally, I noticed the .netlify folder gets created with root ownership during builds
  2. The project uses a redirect in netlify.toml that references the .netlify path:

toml

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[[redirects]]
  from = "/api/messages"
  to = "/.netlify/functions/messages"
  status = 200
2

Do you have a link to the site?

3

Yes here is one of them

I noticed on another site/attempt that if I click “Retry” > “Clear cache and retry with latest branch commit” then it succeeds.

4

I see this error being mentioned internally with a completely different cause, not sure why it’s happening here. I’ll pass this to the devs.

5

Actually, you seem to be publishing the root of your repo. Is that intended?

6

Yes, is it a bad practice to publish the root of the repo?

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Usually yes, unless you have a reason to do so. Looking at your repo, that doesn’t seem to be the case. You should probably add a build command: Build & deploy | Site configuration | silly-llama-502e5f | Netlify so your code actually gets built and then publish only the built files.