Error Compiling Css Asset Operation Not Permitted

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Question x Dismiss Join the Stack Overflow Community Stack Overflow is a community of 4.7 million programmers, just like you, helping each other. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up Rails sprocket Error compiling CSS assest - CHOWN issue up vote 6 down vote favorite I've been breaking my head over this for over 2 days now, and can't seem to figure out where the problem is. This is mostly a problem related to my setup, but if anyone could help me find a solution to this problem, then I'll be his slave for eternity..! I'm running Snow leopard(host) and VMware fusion running Ubuntu Lucid server (guest OS). Somehow after a lot of head-banging I managed to get my workspace shared from Mac to Ubuntu. So, essentially I've been able to isolate my dev environment on a VM, which makes it easy for the entire dev team to be on the same environment irrespective of their host OS / setting, etc. While, it certainly has made everything easy, I'm stuck with a specific problem occurring due to sprockets (I guess). Every time I make changes to my stylesheets and reload, I get this error: Error compiling CSS asset Errno::EPERM: Operation not permitted - /mnt/hgfs/banjarey/tmp/cache/assets/DCF/780/sprockets%2F5f78b3457def1d02bd3fb75d4e0cfb63 /home/coderboy/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/gems/activesupport-3.1.0/lib/active_support/core_ext/file/atomic.rb:38:in `chown' The strage thing though is that if I reload the page twice or thrice, the css compiles and everything works alright. It's a real shame to be reloading the page twice or thrice for every single css change I make. I've played around with memberships and permissions a little bit, but been an amateur I've not ventured deep enough I guess. Any idea folks ?? ruby-on-rails ruby-on-rails-3.1 vmware sprockets vmware-fusion share|improve this question edited Sep 26 '11 at 15:36 thomasfedb 4,79312456 asked Sep 26 '11 at 14:36 hashpipe 145215 I'm pretty sure this is a filesystem permissions problem. –thomasfedb Sep 26 '11 at 14:48 @thomasfedb yup I'm pretty sure it's the same...although really can't figure out why it happens twice / thrice every time, and then simply works ! –hashpipe Sep 26 '11 at 14:57 add a comment| 4 Answers 4 active oldest votes up vote 2 down vote I have the same problem. my solution is to modify the Fi

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