[nix-bundle] Error that zettelkasten directory doesn't exist, but it definitely does

[MaienM]

I'm trying to use a different directory (that is located on a different mount than $HOME in case this is relevant), but neuron is having none of it.

❯ neuron --zettelkasten-dir /mnt/bulk/Cloud/Dropbox/Zettelkasten rib
neuron: user error (Zettelkasten directory (/mnt/bulk/Cloud/Dropbox/Zettelkasten/) does not exist. You may create it manually using `mkdir /mnt/bulk/Cloud/Dropbox/Zettelkasten/` before running neuron.)

❯ mkdir /mnt/bulk/Cloud/Dropbox/Zettelkasten/
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/mnt/bulk/Cloud/Dropbox/Zettelkasten/’: File exists

❯ stat /mnt/bulk/Cloud/Dropbox/Zettelkasten/
  File: /mnt/bulk/Cloud/Dropbox/Zettelkasten/
  Size: 4096            Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   directory
Device: 801h/2049d      Inode: 131072005   Links: 4
Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x)  Uid: ( 1000/  maienm)   Gid: (  985/   users)
Access: 2020-09-05 16:50:27.204380970 +0200
Modify: 2020-09-05 16:47:37.094689675 +0200
Change: 2020-09-05 16:47:37.094689675 +0200
 Birth: 2020-09-05 10:31:01.463146085 +0200

❯ neuron --version
0.6.6.1

[srid]

Is this still an issue?

It seems more like some filesystem mount issue on your system than a bug with neuron.

[MaienM]

It is still an issue, yes.

❯ neuron --version
0.6.8.1

❯ neuron -d /mnt/bulk/Cloud/Dropbox/Zettelkasten rib
neuron: user error (Zettelkasten directory (/mnt/bulk/Cloud/Dropbox/Zettelkasten/) does not exist. You may create it manually using `mkdir /mnt/bulk/Cloud/Dropbox/Zettelkasten/` before running neuron.)

❯ stat /mnt/bulk/Cloud/Dropbox/Zettelkasten/
  File: /mnt/bulk/Cloud/Dropbox/Zettelkasten/
  Size: 4096            Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   directory
Device: 801h/2049d      Inode: 131104769   Links: 2
Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x)  Uid: ( 1000/  maienm)   Gid: (  985/   users)
Access: 2020-09-13 08:47:20.421144136 +0200
Modify: 2020-09-13 08:47:24.597803490 +0200
Change: 2020-09-13 08:47:24.597803490 +0200
 Birth: 2020-09-13 08:46:45.301205625 +0200

The folder in question is on a different mount than my home directory (which does work), but everything else I've done with it has worked fine, neuron is the first program to have any sort of issues with it.

/dev/nvme0n1p2 on / type ext4 (rw,relatime)
/dev/sda1 on /mnt/bulk type ext4 (rw,relatime)

Note that I am using the bundled version of neuron (https://github.com/srid/neuron/releases/download/nightly/neuron-linux-bundle), in case that's relevant.

[MaienM]

I think this is caused by this issue in nix-bundle. Looking at the current list of mapped paths it seems /mnt is not included.

I don't think there's much this project can do about this problem, so I'll close this for now. For anyone else facing this issue a workaround is using the the docker image with a volume mount:

docker run --rm -i -v "$PWD:/zettelkasten" sridca/neuron neuron -d /zettelkasten rib --watch