Prior to updating npm, nvm, node, etc. I had (and was using) the File Manager. After updating it is gone. I have found some related help, but it is 2 years old and suggests a fix coming.
Like you I also use File Manager, NodeJS, NVM, and NPM a lot but never with Apache and also on Ubuntu 22 and 24 yet must say I have never had this problem.
Glad to hear you have resolved it - of course - though concerned as to the cause as that solution seems quite drastic
Agreed.. for me, this is a dev server that is a new install. The first thing I did, after a clean install, was install Docker. The second thing was to install node, nvm, etc. then the File Manager was missing.
So, it wasn’t too risky for me to run the above code only being 1-2 hours into this server.