Docker compose fail with npm error

[bifxcore]

running
docker compose up
on MacOS Sonoma 14.7.1

=> ERROR [front-end 4/4] RUN npm install                                                                                                                           71.2s
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 > [front-end 4/4] RUN npm install:
71.17 npm error Exit handler never called!
71.17 npm error This is an error with npm itself. Please report this error at:
71.17 npm error   <https://github.com/npm/cli/issues>
71.17 npm error A complete log of this run can be found in: /root/.npm/_logs/2025-01-09T20_05_33_024Z-debug-0.log
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WARN[0001] current commit information was not captured by the build  error="failed to read current commit information with git rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree"
failed to solve: process "/bin/sh -c npm install" did not complete successfully: exit code: 1

/root directory does not exist.
Searched globally for file 2025-01-09T20_05_33_024Z-debug-0.log and couldn't find it.

Local npm version: 10.8.2
I cleared the npm cache:
npm cache clean --force

Still getting the "npm error Exit handler never called!" error.