I’m trying this on Ubuntu 22.04 Rust’s cargo install seems to keep creating permission problems between what I have to install, compile and what gets published in the cargo “registry”, which causes issues at runtime when I run as lemmy:lemmy through systemctl.

If I run: cargo install lemmy_server --target-dir /usr/bin/ --locked --features embed-pictrs as a non-root user, I get permission denied issues with /usr/bin/.future-incompat-report.json and /usr/bin/release

If I run the build as a root user, and then manually copy the binaries to /usr/bin and chmod them to lemmy:lemmy, then try to run as lemmy:lemmy, it appears the binary is trying to access some “registry” files in /root/.cargo/registry (for which of course it does not have permissions.)

How do I fix this?

  • KIM_JONG_JUICEBOX@lemmy.mlOP
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    1 year ago

    Thanks. On cargo build --release I get this

    ...
       Compiling strum_macros v0.24.3
       Compiling deadpool v0.9.5
       Compiling tokio-postgres v0.7.8
       Compiling enum_delegate v0.2.0
       Compiling doku v0.20.0
       Compiling jsonwebtoken v8.3.0
    error: failed to run custom build command for `lemmy_utils v0.17.3 (/home/ubuntu/git-clones/lemmy/crates/utils)`
    
    Caused by:
      process didn't exit successfully: `/home/ubuntu/git-clones/lemmy/target/release/build/lemmy_utils-6fa456450f9c975a/build-script-build` (exit status: 1)
      --- stdout
      cargo:rerun-if-changed=translations/email/en.json
      cargo:rerun-if-changed=translations/email/ko.json
      cargo:rerun-if-changed=translations/email/pt.json
    
      --- stderr
      Error: Parse(InvalidParameters { key: "new_application_subject", missing: ["hostname"], unknown: ["instance"] })
    warning: build failed, waiting for other jobs to finish...
    ubuntu@xxx:~/git-clones/lemmy$ 
    
    
    • RoundSparrow@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      I was able to follow these build from git checkout instructions on Ubuntu 22.04, I didn’t get the error you got.

      What version of rust/cargo are you using? cargo --version I get:
      cargo 1.70.0 (ec8a8a0ca 2023-04-25)