cloud-init

Permission denied: '/srv/citest' when running cloud tests locally

Bug #1863792 reported by Dan Watkins on 2020-02-18

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	cloud-init	Expired	Wishlist	Unassigned

Bug Description

The default configuration should work for developers, and therefore shouldn't assume write access to a directory that is (a) outside of the cloud-init tree, and (b) generally requires root privs to create in the first place.

The specific error:

2020-02-18 18:11:21,652 - /home/daniel/dev/cloud-init/tests/cloud_tests/stage.py:run_stage:102 [ERROR]: stage: collect for platform: nocloud-kvm encountered error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/srv/citest'
2020-02-18 18:11:21,653 - /home/daniel/dev/cloud-init/tests/cloud_tests/stage.py:run_stage:104 [ERROR]: traceback:
  File "/home/daniel/dev/cloud-init/tests/cloud_tests/stage.py", line 97, in run_stage
    (call_res, call_failed) = call()
  File "/home/daniel/dev/cloud-init/tests/cloud_tests/collect.py", line 169, in collect_image
    with component as image:
  File "/home/daniel/dev/cloud-init/tests/cloud_tests/stage.py", line 27, in __enter__
    self.instance = self.get_func()
  File "/home/daniel/dev/cloud-init/tests/cloud_tests/platforms/__init__.py", line 20, in get_image
    return platform.get_image(config)
  File "/home/daniel/dev/cloud-init/tests/cloud_tests/platforms/nocloudkvm/platform.py", line 53, in get_image
    tmirror.sync(smirror, path)
  File "/home/daniel/dev/cloud-init/.tox/citest/lib/python3.7/site-packages/simplestreams/mirrors/__init__.py", line 91, in sync
    return self.sync_index(reader, path, data, content)
  File "/home/daniel/dev/cloud-init/.tox/citest/lib/python3.7/site-packages/simplestreams/mirrors/__init__.py", line 254, in sync_index
    self.sync(reader, path=epath)
  File "/home/daniel/dev/cloud-init/.tox/citest/lib/python3.7/site-packages/simplestreams/mirrors/__init__.py", line 89, in sync
    return self.sync_products(reader, path, data, content)
  File "/home/daniel/dev/cloud-init/.tox/citest/lib/python3.7/site-packages/simplestreams/mirrors/__init__.py", line 405, in sync_products
    self.insert_products(path, target, content)
  File "/home/daniel/dev/cloud-init/.tox/citest/lib/python3.7/site-packages/simplestreams/mirrors/__init__.py", line 504, in insert_products
    self.store.insert_content(dpath, util.dump_data(target))
  File "/home/daniel/dev/cloud-init/.tox/citest/lib/python3.7/site-packages/simplestreams/objectstores/__init__.py", line 40, in insert_content
    checksums=checksums, mutable=mutable)
  File "/home/daniel/dev/cloud-init/.tox/citest/lib/python3.7/site-packages/simplestreams/objectstores/__init__.py", line 110, in insert
    util.mkdir_p(out_d)
  File "/home/daniel/dev/cloud-init/.tox/citest/lib/python3.7/site-packages/simplestreams/util.py", line 420, in mkdir_p
    os.makedirs(path)
  File "/home/daniel/dev/cloud-init/.tox/citest/lib/python3.7/os.py", line 211, in makedirs
    makedirs(head, exist_ok=exist_ok)
  File "/home/daniel/dev/cloud-init/.tox/citest/lib/python3.7/os.py", line 211, in makedirs
    makedirs(head, exist_ok=exist_ok)
  File "/home/daniel/dev/cloud-init/.tox/citest/lib/python3.7/os.py", line 221, in makedirs
    mkdir(name, mode)