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

[Clément Hermann]

On 10/02/2021 00:18, Jonathan Marquardt wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 05, 2021 at 12:08:49PM +0100, Clément Hermann wrote:

>> 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).
>
> I played around a bit and found the following things:
>
> Clean install with Debian 10 with Gnome: onioncircuits works.
>
> After I run "pip3 install psutil" as root: onioncircuits doesn't work.
>
> After I run "pip3 uninstall psutil" as root: It works again.
>
> However I found out that it always works (on all of my systems) if I
launch
> onionciruits with the command:
>
> $ python3 /usr/bin/onionciruit
>
> I have no idea why.

"type python3" might tell you if you are maybe using an alternate
python3 interpreter located in /usr/local when doing that. The shebang
in onioncircuits explicitely uses /usr/bin/python3 which might be
different that the one that is first in PATH.

I would recommend making sure any other, non-system python3 is
self-enclosed (maybe in /opt) if needed. python-virtualenv might be a
solution you want to have a look at: system python used for packages,
and separated, local python for local code.

I'm going to close this bug, since it's not an issue on the package.

Thanks for the additional info, even if it's not a bug in the package
this might be useful to other!

Cheers,

-- 
nodens