bug#42859: guix lint: permission denied for cve checker

[Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>]

Hi,

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Jonathan Brielmaier <jonathan.brielmaier@web.de> skribis:
>
>> On 14.08.20 20:27, Leo Famulari wrote:
>>> On Fri, Aug 14, 2020 at 02:26:03PM +0200, Jonathan Brielmaier wrote:
>>>> When running guix lint with the cve checker I get the following error:
>>>>
>>>> ```
>>>> guix lint icecat --checkers=cve
>>>> fetching CVE database for 2020...view1 [cve]...
>>> [...]
>>>> In procedure mkdir: Permission denied
>>>> ```
>>>
>>> Do you know which directory that is? You can run the comand with `strace
>>> -f` to check.
>>
>> Ah thanks for that hint!
>>
>> [...]
>> [pid 20797] mkdir("/home/jonathan/.cache/guix", 0777) = -1 EEXIST (Die
>> Datei existiert bereits)
>> [pid 20797] mkdir("/home/jonathan/.cache/guix/http", 0777) = -1 EACCES
>> (Keine Berechtigung)
>> [pid 20797] write(2, "Backtrace:\n", 11Backtrace:
>> ) = 11
>> [...]
>>
>> ll /home/jonathan/.cache/guix
>> insgesamt 8
>> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 17. Jun 00:00 authentication/
>> drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096  7. Jun 11:53 checkouts/
>>
>> So i wonder now why it's owned by root and not by jonathan:users like
>> the rest (apart from guile) in ~/.cache/
>
> Perhaps you previously ran “sudo guix lint -c cve” or something?
>
> Commit 4c5edee1ef2aff2b8f3782ccb03723a6428bf600 leads to a clearer error
> message pointing at the faulty directory permissions.
>
> I think we’re done?

I think so!  Closing.

Thanks,

Maxim