Comment 3 for bug 1653725

Thanks. I think the problem is a newly introduced check for path writeability which is harmless and in fact, potentially useful in just about all cases but the weird Ubuntu Phone case where / is read-only, confusing that check.

@Christian: Can you look into fixing this? I suspect we only really care about being able to access the path, not so much about being able to write to it. So it may make sense to change the check in all our tools to simply check for read rights.