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I'm trying this on Ubuntu 22.04 Rust's cargo install seems to keep creating permission problems between what I have to install, compile and what gets published in the cargo "registry", which causes issues at runtime when I run as lemmy:lemmy through systemctl.

If I run: cargo install lemmy_server --target-dir /usr/bin/ --locked --features embed-pictrs as a non-root user, I get permission denied issues with /usr/bin/.future-incompat-report.json and /usr/bin/release

If I run the build as a root user, and then manually copy the binaries to /usr/bin and chmod them to lemmy:lemmy, then try to run as lemmy:lemmy, it appears the binary is trying to access some "registry" files in /root/.cargo/registry (for which of course it does not have permissions.)

How do I fix this?

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  • I've seen guys here making PR's to docs and install scripts, hope someone gonna do the same after finding solution for your question.

    • Thanks.

      So if I go on a mad chmod spree, making /usr/bin/lemmy_server and all of its dependencies readable/executable (which is super insecure) I finally get to this log message in journalctl:

      Jun 07 13:50:57 ip-172-31-4-153 lemmy_server[3868]: thread 'main' panicked at 'C
ouldn't run DB Migrations', /home/ubuntu/.cargo/registry/src/index.crates.io-6f1
7d22bba15001f/lemmy_db_schema-0.17.3/src/utils.rs:165:25

      Which is this code:

      pub fn run_migrations(db_url: &str) {
  // Needs to be a sync connection
  let mut conn =
    PgConnection::establish(db_url).unwrap_or_else(|_| panic!("Error connecting to {db_url}"));
  info!("Running Database migrations (This may take a long time)...");
  let _ = &mut conn
    .run_pending_migrations(MIGRATIONS)
    .unwrap_or_else(|_| panic!("Couldn't run DB Migrations"));
  info!("Database migrations complete.");
}

      Hope that helps someone figure this out.

      I'm pretty unhappy that I can't get this to work.

      • I am stuck at this same point!

        We need some help here....

        • So I am able to build from the git repo.

          Had to remove rust from apt (v 1.65)

          And install rust from rustup (v 1.70)

          That fixes the build, but now I still get this db migrations error on startup.

          Jun 09 15:47:37 ip-x systemd[1]: Started Lemmy - A link aggregator for the fediverse.
Jun 09 15:47:37 ip-x lemmy_server[15239]: 2023-06-09T15:47:37.238544Z  INFO lemmy_db_schema::utils: Running Database migrations (This may take a long time)...
Jun 09 15:47:37 ip-x lemmy_server[15239]: thread 'main' panicked at 'Couldn't run DB Migrations', crates/db_schema/src/utils.rs:165:25
Jun 09 15:47:37 ip-x lemmy_server[15239]: note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace
Jun 09 15:47:37 ip-x systemd[1]: lemmy.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=101/n/a

          I know it can connect to the db because I see it created some tables already.

          I wonder if this is related to this warning regarding schema, which I see during the build.

          warning: /root/git-clones/lemmy/crates/api_common/Cargo.toml: `default-features` is ignored for lemmy_db_schema, since `default-features` was not specified for `workspace.dependencies.lemmy_db_schema`, this could become a hard error in the future
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