InitIssuesIndexer: create index, mkdir /usr/local/bin/data: permission denied

[stachlewski]

• Gitea version (or commit ref): 1.5.0
• Git version: 2.17.1
• Operating system: Ubuntu 18.04
• Database (use [x]):
  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • MSSQL
  • SQLite
• Can you reproduce the bug at https://try.gitea.io:
  • Yes (provide example URL)
  • No
  • Not relevant
• Log gist:
  2018/08/11 16:54:30 [I] Log Mode: File(Info)
  2018/08/11 16:54:30 [I] XORM Log Mode: File(Info)
  2018/08/11 16:54:30 [I] Cache Service Enabled
  2018/08/11 16:54:30 [I] Session Service Enabled
  2018/08/11 16:54:30 [I] Mail Service Enabled
  2018/08/11 16:54:30 [I] Notify Mail Service Enabled
  2018/08/11 16:54:32 [I] Git Version: 2.17.1
  2018/08/11 16:54:32 [...les/indexer/issue.go:64 InitIssueIndexer()] [E] InitIssuesIndexer: create index, mkdir /usr/local/bin/data: permission denied

Description

Fresh install. Done according to documentation, yet it attempts to create a subdirectory of its binary path, not in the working directory.

Started by supervisor with the following config:

[program:gitea]
directory=/var/lib/gitea
command=/usr/local/bin/gitea web -c /etc/gitea/app.ini
autostart=true
autorestart=true
startsecs=10
stdout_logfile=/var/log/gitea/stdout.log
stdout_logfile_maxbytes=1MB
stdout_logfile_backups=10
stdout_capture_maxbytes=1MB
stderr_logfile=/var/log/gitea/stderr.log
stderr_logfile_maxbytes=1MB
stderr_logfile_backups=10
stderr_capture_maxbytes=1MB
user = git
environment = HOME="/home/git", USER="git", GITEA_WORK_DIR="/var/lib/gitea"

[lafriks]

What output to you get in gitea.log or stdout about directories?

[SagePtr]

Maybe it doesn't parse environment config correct?
What if you remove spaces in last 2 lines?

user=git
environment=HOME="/home/git",USER="git",GITEA_WORK_DIR="/var/lib/gitea"

[stachlewski]

gitea.log I pasted in my first message.

stdout.log:
2018/08/11 16:49:35 [I] Gitea v1.5.0 built with: bindata, sqlite
2018/08/11 16:51:38 [T] AppPath: /usr/local/bin/gitea
2018/08/11 16:51:38 [T] AppWorkPath: /usr/local/bin
2018/08/11 16:51:38 [T] Custom path: /usr/local/bin/custom
2018/08/11 16:51:38 [T] Log path: /var/log/gitea/

Probably AppWorkPath is the issue here.

Removing spaces in environment didn't help.
Directory structure (created by commands in installation manual) is as follows:
root@repo ~ # ls -la /var/lib/gitea
total 28
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Aug 11 15:24 .
drwxr-xr-x 38 root root 4096 Aug 11 16:30 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 11 15:24 custom
drwxr-x--- 2 git git 4096 Aug 11 15:24 data
drwxr-x--- 2 git git 4096 Aug 11 15:24 indexers
drwxr-x--- 2 git git 4096 Aug 11 15:24 log
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 11 15:24 public

[mkienenb]

I also hit this problem while trying to start gitea manually.
This worked for me:

% GITEA_WORK_DIR="/var/lib/gitea" /usr/local/bin/gitea

[lafriks]

Looks like problem is that supervisor does not set GITEA_WORK_DIR environment variable

[mkienenb]

Documenting on the off chance that someone else has to deal with this situation,

In order to make the contributed service definition work under Centos 6, I had to make these changes to pick up the GITEA_WORK_DIR. I also had to change the cwd to ~git explicitly in order for it to find the https certificate files.

It seems like there must be a better approach. Maybe a gitea option to set the AppWorkPath: value directly?

Starting with
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/go-gitea/gitea/master/contrib/init/centos/gitea

% diff gitea.default-service /etc/init.d/gitea 
52c52
<   daemon $DAEMON_OPTS "${GITEA_PATH} web -c /etc/${NAME}/app.ini > ${LOGFILE} 2>&1 &"
---
>   daemon $DAEMON_OPTS "cd ~${GITEA_USER}; GITEA_WORK_DIR=${GITEA_HOME} ${GITEA_PATH} web -c /etc/${NAME}/app.ini > ${LOGFILE} 2>&1 &"

[mckaygerhard]

this problem its due the explained in #5482

[lunny]

see #5482