Running node (express) on linux produces Error: spawn EACCES

I'm building a node app with using Expressjs and I'm trying to run my node app on a freshly installed Ubuntu (I just installed git and node v 0.10.19).

Sadly though, I'm getting the following error when trying to run the app in terminal:

 Events.js:72    throw er; // unhandled 'error' eventError: spawn EACCES

I'm running on port 3000 and I am using sudo. I also tried as root and I also played around with different ports above the 1024 threshold.

The app is just basic Expressjs and I'm using the default method for opening the app socket:

  app.listen(3000);

I'm a Linux noob so any help is appreciated. the app works just great on Windows by the way.

The basic server code:

    var express = require('express')    , app = express()    , fs = require ('fs')    , lingua = require('lingua');    process.env.NODE_ENV = 'development';    app.configure(function(){        app.set('view engine', 'jade');        app.set('views', __dirname +'/views');        app.setMaxListeners(100);        app.use(express.bodyParser());        app.use(express.methodOverride());        app.use(express.static(__dirname +'/public'));        app.use(express.favicon(__dirname +'/public/core/favicon.ico'));        app.use(lingua(app, {            defaultLocale: 'translation_',            storageKey: 'lang',            path: __dirname+'/public/translations/',            cookieOptions: {                httpOnly: false,                        expires: new Date(Date.now(-1)),                  secure: false            }        }));        app.use(app.router);        app.locals.pretty = true;    });    app.configure('development', function(){           app.enable('verbose errors');        app.use(express.errorHandler({ dumpExceptions: true, showStack: true }));      });    app.configure('production', function(){        app.disable('verbose errors');        app.use(express.errorHandler());     });       require('./lib/routing/routing')(app,{ verbose: !module.parent });    app.listen(3000);

You can test it out yourself by installing: npm install mediacenterjs