Permission denied: '/srv/citest' when running cloud tests locally

[ubuntu-server-builder]

This bug was originally filed in Launchpad as LP: #1863792

Launchpad details

affected_projects = []
assignee = None
assignee_name = None
date_closed = None
date_created = 2020-02-18T18:15:40.400169+00:00
date_fix_committed = None
date_fix_released = None
id = 1863792
importance = wishlist
is_complete = False
lp_url = https://bugs.launchpad.net/cloud-init/+bug/1863792
milestone = None
owner = oddbloke
owner_name = Dan Watkins
private = False
status = triaged
submitter = oddbloke
submitter_name = Dan Watkins
tags = []
duplicates = []

Launchpad user Dan Watkins(oddbloke) wrote on 2020-02-18T18:15:40.400169+00:00

The default configuration should work for developers, and therefore shouldn't assume write access to a directory that is (a) outside of the cloud-init tree, and (b) generally requires root privs to create in the first place.

The specific error:

2020-02-18 18:11:21,652 - /home/daniel/dev/cloud-init/tests/cloud_tests/stage.py:run_stage:102 [ERROR]: stage: collect for platform: nocloud-kvm encountered error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/srv/citest'
2020-02-18 18:11:21,653 - /home/daniel/dev/cloud-init/tests/cloud_tests/stage.py:run_stage:104 [ERROR]: traceback:
File "/home/daniel/dev/cloud-init/tests/cloud_tests/stage.py", line 97, in run_stage
(call_res, call_failed) = call()
File "/home/daniel/dev/cloud-init/tests/cloud_tests/collect.py", line 169, in collect_image
with component as image:
File "/home/daniel/dev/cloud-init/tests/cloud_tests/stage.py", line 27, in enter
self.instance = self.get_func()
File "/home/daniel/dev/cloud-init/tests/cloud_tests/platforms/init.py", line 20, in get_image
return platform.get_image(config)
File "/home/daniel/dev/cloud-init/tests/cloud_tests/platforms/nocloudkvm/platform.py", line 53, in get_image
tmirror.sync(smirror, path)
File "/home/daniel/dev/cloud-init/.tox/citest/lib/python3.7/site-packages/simplestreams/mirrors/init.py", line 91, in sync
return self.sync_index(reader, path, data, content)
File "/home/daniel/dev/cloud-init/.tox/citest/lib/python3.7/site-packages/simplestreams/mirrors/init.py", line 254, in sync_index
self.sync(reader, path=epath)
File "/home/daniel/dev/cloud-init/.tox/citest/lib/python3.7/site-packages/simplestreams/mirrors/init.py", line 89, in sync
return self.sync_products(reader, path, data, content)
File "/home/daniel/dev/cloud-init/.tox/citest/lib/python3.7/site-packages/simplestreams/mirrors/init.py", line 405, in sync_products
self.insert_products(path, target, content)
File "/home/daniel/dev/cloud-init/.tox/citest/lib/python3.7/site-packages/simplestreams/mirrors/init.py", line 504, in insert_products
self.store.insert_content(dpath, util.dump_data(target))
File "/home/daniel/dev/cloud-init/.tox/citest/lib/python3.7/site-packages/simplestreams/objectstores/init.py", line 40, in insert_content
checksums=checksums, mutable=mutable)
File "/home/daniel/dev/cloud-init/.tox/citest/lib/python3.7/site-packages/simplestreams/objectstores/init.py", line 110, in insert
util.mkdir_p(out_d)
File "/home/daniel/dev/cloud-init/.tox/citest/lib/python3.7/site-packages/simplestreams/util.py", line 420, in mkdir_p
os.makedirs(path)
File "/home/daniel/dev/cloud-init/.tox/citest/lib/python3.7/os.py", line 211, in makedirs
makedirs(head, exist_ok=exist_ok)
File "/home/daniel/dev/cloud-init/.tox/citest/lib/python3.7/os.py", line 211, in makedirs
makedirs(head, exist_ok=exist_ok)
File "/home/daniel/dev/cloud-init/.tox/citest/lib/python3.7/os.py", line 221, in makedirs
mkdir(name, mode)