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_JUICEBOXOP
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    1 year ago

    pictrs (when run as a server) runs its own server, but it needs the /usr/bin/magick binary from ImageMagick, and it doesn’t do a good job of complaining about it in the logs when it can’t find that binary.

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      1 year ago

      it’s a good catch if indeed you found it runs as root. I wonder of the Ansible instructions create an account for it.

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        I had to create a separate user specifically for pictrs. There’s no reason that should run as root.

        So to federate with other instances, do I need specific whitelisting? Or this will magically find them?

        
          federation: {
            enabled: true
          }
        
        
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          So to federate with other instances, do I need specific whitelisting? Or this will magically find them?

          On my install, it was magic. It discovered all the peers, and I was able to start finding communities and joining.