GNU bug report logs - #55809
guix challenge with diffoscope fails to clean up temporary directory

Previous Next

Full log

Message #5 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant <at> reproducible-builds.org>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: guix challenge with diffoscope fails to clean up temporary directory
Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2022 09:55:36 -0700

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

When I run a command such as:

  guix challenge --verbose --diff=diffoscope gavl 2>&1 | tee gavl

It works for the most part, producing the diffoscope output, but ends
with a bunch of warnings regarding removing the temporary directory it
created to compare the files:

  warning: failed to delete /tmp/guix-directory.5TokII/share/doc: Permission denied
  warning: failed to delete /tmp/guix-directory.5TokII/share: Permission denied
  warning: failed to delete /tmp/guix-directory.5TokII: Directory not empty

The permissions on the directory are read-only, which is presumably why
it cannot remove them:

  $ ls -latr /tmp/guix-directory.5TokII/
  total 28
  dr-xr-xr-x   3 vagrant vagrant  4096 Dec 31  1969 share
  dr-xr-xr-x   3 vagrant vagrant  4096 Dec 31  1969 lib
  dr-xr-xr-x   3 vagrant vagrant  4096 Dec 31  1969 include
  dr-xr-xr-x   5 vagrant vagrant  4096 Dec 31  1969 .
  drwxrwxrwt 168 root    root    12288 Jun  5 09:28 ..


The warnings are at best distracting, and at worst end up effectively
making it impossible to see the diffoscope output without redirecting to
a file, as the source files can take up many many lines in the scroll
buffer.


live well,
  vagrant

[signature.asc (application/pgp-signature, inline)]

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.