[Pkg-privacy-maintainers] Bug#1001981: Bug#1001981: onioncircuits: Doesn't start: Permission denied: '/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages/usb-0.0.83.dev0.dist-info'

[Sascha Steinbiss]

Hi Richard,

thanks for your report. Let's see what I can do.

> clicking then launcher results in no visible action.

This is just in bullseye? Unfortunately I can't reproduce this,
onioncircuits opens fine for me.

> Starting from shell
> results in this:
> 
> rz at rz-debian:~$ onioncircuits
<snip>
> PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-
> packages/usb-0.0.83.dev0.dist-info'

This is quite suspicious. There should no Python code installed by
Debian packages in /usr/local [1]. It looks like something installed
alongside the Debian-provided Python modules is interfering with
operation of the pycountry module, which is a dependency of onioncircuits.
Did you install any Python packages system-wide using pip or other means
other than Debian packaging, maybe even using sudo? This may leave files
around with permissions not including the rz user.

Can you please try uninstalling these files in
/usr/local/lib/python3.9/dist-packages and try again? Thanks!

Cheers
Sascha

[1] See Policy 9.1.2:
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html#site-specific-programs