Universal Blue•10mo ago

Distrobox Permission Denied

RaevenantOP•2/18/25, 11:38 PM

I'm sure there's a simple explaination, I just don't understand distrobox all that well yet

RaevenantOP•2/18/25, 11:38 PM

I also don't know why , and are root owned, but it seems to be related

RaevenantOP•2/18/25, 11:54 PM

and also does not have this issue. Only fish for some reason

RaevenantOP•2/20/25, 2:52 AM

Hey @tulip, you seen this error before?

RRaevenant Hey @tulip, you seen this error before?

tulip•2/20/25, 2:53 AM

seems like selinux is being really mad at you

Ttulip seems like selinux is being really mad at you

RaevenantOP•2/20/25, 2:53 AM

Oh huh

RaevenantOP•2/20/25, 2:53 AM

But it's in my home dir?

tulip•2/20/25, 2:53 AM

try doing on your host and on your distrobox

tulip•2/20/25, 2:54 AM

then run

tulip•2/20/25, 2:54 AM

you'll see what its so mad about

RaevenantOP•2/20/25, 2:54 AM

What's that do?

RRaevenant What's that do?

tulip•2/20/25, 2:54 AM

gets all your files as a list and saves it to a file

tulip•2/20/25, 2:54 AM

then you can compare which ones show up and which ones dont

tulip•2/20/25, 2:55 AM

the missing ones on the distrobox file list is what is getting permission denied

tulip•2/20/25, 2:55 AM

oooooh

tulip•2/20/25, 2:55 AM

@Raevenant

tulip•2/20/25, 2:55 AM

tulip•2/20/25, 2:55 AM

something is wrong on ur fish config

tulip•2/20/25, 2:55 AM

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/69328173/fish-shell-error-unable-to-open-universal-variable-file-permission-denie

Stack Overflow

Fish Shell: "error: Unable to open universal variable file '/': Per...

I am using the Fish shell (version 3.3.1) on MacOS. Every time I run a command it shows this error multiple times:
error: Unable to open universal variable file '/': Permission denied

The commands

tulip•2/20/25, 2:56 AM

try clearing it up

tulip•2/20/25, 2:56 AM

then re-add stuff and see what breaks it

RaevenantOP•2/20/25, 2:56 AM

Hmmmmm

RaevenantOP•2/20/25, 2:56 AM

But it happens I think because the config is root

RaevenantOP•2/20/25, 2:57 AM

Like, fish works fine if I remove the init_hooks bit

RRaevenant ```yaml [rust] image=registry.fedoraproject.org/fedora-toolbox:40 pull=true repl...

tulip•2/20/25, 2:57 AM

also highly recommend not putting this stuff on init_hooks

RaevenantOP•2/20/25, 2:57 AM

What instead?

tulip•2/20/25, 2:57 AM

try making a custom distrobox image with boxkit

RaevenantOP•2/20/25, 2:58 AM

tulip•2/20/25, 2:58 AM

then put a Justfile in

tulip•2/20/25, 2:58 AM

and some alias for it or something

tulip•2/20/25, 2:58 AM

then BAM you have the same functionality its just "optional"

RaevenantOP•2/20/25, 2:58 AM

Honestly that works for me lmao a few of the things I want to add need like, API keys n stuff

RRaevenant ```yaml [rust] image=registry.fedoraproject.org/fedora-toolbox:40 pull=true repl...

tulip•2/20/25, 2:59 AM

i think the thing is that the init_hooks part is being run as root on the container and its making it so your regular user bound to the container doesnt get read access to the fish config

Ttulip i think the thing is that the init_hooks part is being run as root on the contai...

RaevenantOP•2/20/25, 2:59 AM

Yuuuuuup

tulip•2/20/25, 2:59 AM

or dunno

Ttulip try making a custom distrobox image with boxkit

RaevenantOP•2/20/25, 3:02 AM

I'll give this a shot and get back to you