Internal Error: EACCES: permission denied, symlink '../lib/node_modules/corepack/dist/pnpm.js' -> '/usr/local/bin/pnpm'

For whatever reason the downloaded node gave me all sorts of permission issues. What does work is using nvm to install node.

First install nvm using these directions https://tecadmin.net/install-nvm-macos-with-homebrew/

Then follow these next steps:

nvm install --lts

corepack enable

yarn

Encountered this myself and it seems like the issue was that the circleci environment doesn't allow access to the default location corepack adds it's binary symlinks (/usr/local/bin/...). For me it was fixed by instead using ~/bin for the corepack install directory:

corepack enable --install-directory ~/bin

I experienced it today. Adding sudo worked fine for me.

sudo corepack enable