2017-05-16 12:38 GMT+02:00 Kevin Daudt <me@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 12:28:58AM +0200, Thomas Schweikle wrote: >> $ git clone >> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git >> linux-stable >> Cloning into 'linux-stable'... >> remote: Counting objects: 5932092, done. >> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (154131/154131), done. >> fatal: Unable to create temporary file >> '$HOME/Dev/linux-stable/.git/objects/pack/tmp_pack_XXXXXX': Permission >> denied >> fatal: index-pack failed >> >> Since no file/directory created by git I cant tell why git isn't >> able to create >> "$HOME/Dev/linux-stable/.git/objects/pack/tmp_pack_XXXXXX". >> >> If I try to create this file and directory I can create it: >> $ mkdir -p $HOME/Dev/linux-stable/.git/objects/pack >> $ touch $HOME/Dev/linux-stable/.git/objects/pack/tmp_pack_XXXXXX >> $ ll $HOME/Dev/linux-stable/.git/objects/pack/tmp_pack_XXXXXX >> -rw-rw-r-x+ 1 tps tps 0 May 15 00:18 >> /home/tps/Dev/linux-stable/.git/objects/pack/tmp_pack_XXXXXX >> $ >> >> $ git --version >> git version 2.11.0 >> >> -- >> Thomas > > Note the '+' at the end of the permission list. This means an acl has > been applied to this directory. > > What does getfacl > '$HOME/Dev/linux-stable/.git/objects/pack/' return? since non of "linux-stable/.git/objects/pack" is created, I can only have a look at what acl the directories have if I create them: $ mkdir -p $HOME/Dev/linux-stable/.git/objects/pack $ LANG=C getfacl $HOME/Dev/linux-stable/.git getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names # file: home/tps/Dev/linux-stable/.git # owner: tps # group: tps user::rwx user:root:rwx user:500:rwx user:nobody:--- group::rwx group:uuidd:rwx group:crontab:r-x mask::rwx other::rwx default:user::rwx default:user:root:rwx default:user:500:rwx default:user:nobody:--- default:group::rwx default:group:uuidd:rwx default:group:crontab:r-x default:mask::rwx default:other::rwx $ LANG=C getfacl /home/tps/Dev/linux-stable/.git/objects/ getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names # file: home/tps/Dev/linux-stable/.git/objects/ # owner: tps # group: tps user::rwx user:root:rwx user:500:rwx user:nobody:--- group::rwx group:uuidd:rwx group:crontab:r-x mask::rwx other::rwx default:user::rwx default:user:root:rwx default:user:500:rwx default:user:nobody:--- default:group::rwx default:group:uuidd:rwx default:group:crontab:r-x default:mask::rwx default:other::rwx $ LANG=C getfacl /home/tps/Dev/linux-stable/.git/objects/pack/ getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names # file: home/tps/Dev/linux-stable/.git/objects/pack/ # owner: tps # group: tps user::rwx user:root:rwx user:500:rwx user:nobody:--- group::rwx group:uuidd:rwx group:crontab:r-x mask::rwx other::rwx default:user::rwx default:user:root:rwx default:user:500:rwx default:user:nobody:--- default:group::rwx default:group:uuidd:rwx default:group:crontab:r-x default:mask::rwx default:other::rwx git should not have any problems creating files and folders … but git wont even create linux-stable! -- Thomas