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`guix deploy` permission denied error

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From: pkill9 <pkill9 <at> runbox.com>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: `guix deploy` permission denied error
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2021 21:43:19 +0000

When I run Guix deploy, I get this error:
```
guix deploy: error: open-file: Permission denied:
"/home/itsme/.cache/guix/checkouts/last-expiry-cleanup"
```

I've tried deleting ~/.cache/guix, and creating a chmod 777'd
~/.cache/guix directory, but I still get that error.

Message #8 received at 46861 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: pkill9 <pkill9 <at> runbox.com>
Cc: 46861 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#46861: `guix deploy` permission denied error
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2021 13:44:46 +0100

Hi,

pkill9 <pkill9 <at> runbox.com> skribis:

> When I run Guix deploy, I get this error:
> ```
> guix deploy: error: open-file: Permission denied:
> "/home/itsme/.cache/guix/checkouts/last-expiry-cleanup"
> ```
>
> I've tried deleting ~/.cache/guix, and creating a chmod 777'd
> ~/.cache/guix directory, but I still get that error.

Can you show the ownership of ~itsme/.cache/guix/checkouts and
~itsme/.cache/guix/checkouts/last-expiry-cleanup?

It’s likely been caused by “sudo guix pull”, which changed the ownership
to root.  There’s no reason to run ‘guix deploy’ as root.

TIA,
Ludo’.

Message #11 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 46861 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, bug-guix <at> gnu.org, pkill9 <pkill9 <at> runbox.com>
Subject: Re: bug#46861: `guix deploy` permission denied error
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2021 16:56:04 +0100

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Ludovic Courtès 写道：
> It’s likely been caused by “sudo guix pull”, which changed the 
> ownership
> to root.  There’s no reason to run ‘guix deploy’ as root.

Ownership of _what_, though?

I thought the same as you at first, hence (on IRC):

> I've tried deleting ~/.cache/guix, and creating a chmod 777'd
> ~/.cache/guix directory, but I still get that error.

Kind regards,

T G-R

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Message #17 received at 46861 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: pkill9 <pkill9 <at> runbox.com>
To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr>
Cc: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>, bug-guix <at> gnu.org,
 46861 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#46861: `guix deploy` permission denied error
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2021 01:04:43 +0000

It does this with guix pull too, and it's on the machine that is doing
the deploying that gui pull causes the error, but guix pull worked fine
on the machine being deployed to.

Message #23 received at 46861 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: pkill9 <pkill9 <at> runbox.com>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 46861 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#46861: `guix deploy` permission denied error
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2021 17:11:22 +0000

Ok, I just did `guix pull` on the machine deploying to the remote host,
which had the same problem before, and it created last-expiry-cleanup
and the file is owned by root, and changing it to my user fixed it. Not
sure what happened the first time around, I'm so confused...

My only guess is that I did a guix pull as root, which put that there
like suggested, but that guix deploy also relies on it, so when I
deleted that file, `guix deploy` didn't recreate it because it doesn't
handle it. The thing is, it didn't say no such file or directory, it
said permission denied. I dunno.. I worked myself up into confusion... 

Message #28 received at 46861-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: pkill9 <pkill9 <at> runbox.com>
Cc: 46861-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#46861: `guix deploy` permission denied error
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2021 15:09:08 +0100

Hi,

pkill9 <pkill9 <at> runbox.com> skribis:

> Ok, I just did `guix pull` on the machine deploying to the remote host,
> which had the same problem before, and it created last-expiry-cleanup
> and the file is owned by root, and changing it to my user fixed it. Not
> sure what happened the first time around, I'm so confused...

OK, closing!

‘sudo guix’ is an endless source of confusion.  :-/

Thanks,
Ludo’.

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