[Pkg-privacy-maintainers] Bug#981817: onioncircuits: Permission denied: '/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/psutil-5.7.2.dist-info'

[Clément Hermann]

On 04/02/2021 13:04, Jonathan Marquardt wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 04, 2021 at 12:23:17PM +0100, Clément Hermann wrote:
>> The error message reference stuff in /usr/local: this leads me to think
>> some python libs where locally installed without using the package
>> system. Can you check that please ? And maybe test in a vm for instance
>> to check in a clean environment ?
> 
> I checked and you're right. This doesn't happen in a clean environment. I 
> figured out what causes the issue. I have psutil installed using pip (pip3 
> install psutil).
> 
> Is there a way to fix this? What even causes this? I need psutil to be 
> installed for some other python programs.

I'm not sure in this particular case, the permission error suggests
there is something on your setup that prevents the user running
onioncircuits to access this file.

Usually when one mixes distribution packages and pip, one would use
virtualenv or something similar to ensure what is run via pip modules is
self-contained.

The thing is, I'm not sure why this error is on this module
specifically, or that the module is pstutil is significant or it could
be anyone.

in a clean Buster virtual machine, I tried to pip3 install psutil then
install onioncircuits, and I didn't get this error (though I didn't try
with a graphical environment running). There must be something else
going on in your environment, maybe check the permissions on /usr/local
and below, or try to go the virtualenv route, or if you can, install the
python modules you need using Debian Packages (psutil has a recent
version available through buster-backports for instance).

Cheers,

-- 
nodens