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guix lint: permission denied for cve checker |
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Fri, 14 Aug 2020 14:26:03 +0200 |
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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]...
Backtrace:
12 (primitive-load "/home/jonathan/.config/guix/current/bi?")
In guix/ui.scm:
2046:12 11 (run-guix-command _ . _)
In srfi/srfi-1.scm:
634:9 10 (for-each #<procedure 7fe83940afc0 at guix/scripts/lin?> ?)
In guix/scripts/lint.scm:
60:4 9 (run-checkers #<package icecat@68.11.0-guix0-preview1 ?> ?)
In srfi/srfi-1.scm:
634:9 8 (for-each #<procedure 7fe83094da20 at guix/scripts/lin?> ?)
In guix/scripts/lint.scm:
69:21 7 (_ _)
In guix/lint.scm:
1110:4 6 (check-vulnerabilities #<package icecat@68.11.0-guix0-?> ?)
1102:9 5 (_ _)
In unknown file:
4 (force #<promise #<procedure 7fe8387c8820 at guix/lint.?>)
In guix/lint.scm:
1085:2 3 (_)
1044:2 2 (call-with-networking-fail-safe _ _ _)
In ice-9/boot-9.scm:
1736:10 1 (with-exception-handler _ _ #:unwind? _ # _)
1669:16 0 (raise-exception _ #:continuable? _)
ice-9/boot-9.scm:1669:16: In procedure raise-exception:
In procedure mkdir: Permission denied
```
I'm on a pretty new guix and I did observe this issue for quite a while:
```
guix describe
guix 697e54b
Repository-URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
Branch: master
Commit: 697e54b2a16575afa9457456fa2a27b0e5895caa
```
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Re: bug#42859: guix lint: permission denied for cve checker |
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Wed, 13 Jul 2022 23:04:49 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.1 (gnu/linux) |
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
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