Error: Netlify CLI has terminated unexpectedly.

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
node.js, typescript
Domain
cli

Research direction

Start by reproducing the failure through the netlify dev entry point on Windows 10 with the reported Node and npm versions. Read the stack trace through Node's filesystem watcher and the bundled chokidar handler; done means the CLI no longer terminates unexpectedly when watching the reported PNG path.

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Description

type: bug
Describe the bug

Error: EBUSY: resource busy or locked, watch 'E:\dev\atarfe-digital\dist\Atarfe Digital 1200x630\Atarfe Digital 1200x630 - Claro.png'
at FSWatcher. (node:internal/fs/watchers:323:19)
at watch (node:fs:3062:36)
at createFsWatchInstance (file:///C:/Users//AppData/Roaming/npm/node_modules/netlify-cli/node_modules/chokidar/esm/handler.js:126:16)
at setFsWatchListener (file:///C:/Users/
/AppData/Roaming/npm/node_modules/netlify-cli/node_modules/chokidar/esm/handler.js:171:19)
at NodeFsHandler._watchWithNodeFs (file:///C:/Users//AppData/Roaming/npm/node_modules/netlify-cli/node_modules/chokidar/esm/handler.js:325:22)
at NodeFsHandler._handleFile (file:///C:/Users/
/AppData/Roaming/npm/node_modules/netlify-cli/node_modules/chokidar/esm/handler.js:391:29)
at NodeFsHandler._addToNodeFs (file:///C:/Users/****/AppData/Roaming/npm/node_modules/netlify-cli/node_modules/chokidar/esm/handler.js:615:31)

System:
OS: Windows 10 10.0.19045
CPU: (4) x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-4160 CPU @ 3.60GHz
Binaries:
Node: 26.4.0 - C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.EXE
npm: 11.17.0 - C:\Program Files\nodejs\npm.CMD
Browsers:
Chrome: 150.0.7871.182
Edge: Chromium (150.0.4078.105)
Firefox: 152.0.5 - C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe

Steps to reproduce

I just run netlify dev and this happens every time

Configuration

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Environment

netlify dev

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