From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Jonathan Brielmaier <jonathan.brielmaier@web.de>
Cc: 42859@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#42859: guix lint: permission denied for cve checker
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2020 00:54:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ft8awd3p.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <335a65e3-53a5-8c5b-2388-12553e3236b9@web.de> (Jonathan Brielmaier's message of "Sun, 16 Aug 2020 21:58:21 +0200")
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?
Thanks,
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-25 22:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-14 12:26 bug#42859: guix lint: permission denied for cve checker Jonathan Brielmaier
2020-08-14 18:27 ` Leo Famulari
2020-08-16 19:58 ` Jonathan Brielmaier
2020-08-25 22:54 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2022-07-14 3:04 ` Maxim Cournoyer
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