gitk doesn't work w/o sudo.

gitk doesn't work w/o sudo.

[Dilip M]

Hi,

..I recently install GIT on Ubuntu (hardy) box....I am able to use
'gitk' only If I do 'sudo'. Without 'sudo' it complains 'repository
not found'

-- DM

Re: gitk doesn't work w/o sudo.

[Reece Dunn]

2009/1/19 Dilip M <dilipm79@gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> ..I recently install GIT on Ubuntu (hardy) box....I am able to use
> 'gitk' only If I do 'sudo'. Without 'sudo' it complains 'repository
> not found'

Who is the owner of the repository directory (and the .git directory)
and what are the permissions on the directory? You can run (on the
command line from the Terminal program):

   ls -lh directory

to find this out (where directory is the directory you are interested
in) and run:

   sudo chown user -R directory

to change ownership of that directory (and all of its content) to the
specified user (i.e. the one you are currently logged in as). This
will make it so that you own that directory and can make changes to
it. This should allow you to run gitk without using sudo.

HTH,
- Reece

Re: gitk doesn't work w/o sudo.

[Dilip M]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Reece Dunn <msclrhd@googlemail.com> wrote:
> 2009/1/19 Dilip M <dilipm79@gmail.com>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> ..I recently install GIT on Ubuntu (hardy) box....I am able to use
>> 'gitk' only If I do 'sudo'. Without 'sudo' it complains 'repository
>> not found'
>
> Who is the owner of the repository directory (and the .git directory)
> and what are the permissions on the directory? You can run (on the
> command line from the Terminal program):
>
>   ls -lh directory
>
> to find this out (where directory is the directory you are interested
> in) and run:
>
>   sudo chown user -R directory
>
> to change ownership of that directory (and all of its content) to the
> specified user (i.e. the one you are currently logged in as). This
> will make it so that you own that directory and can make changes to
> it. This should allow you to run gitk without using sudo.

Even I suspected that it may be related to some permission and checked
them...But I couldn't find the actual cause.

dm-laptop:~/repos/atria> id -a
uid=1000(dm) gid=1000(dm)
groups=4(adm),20(dialout),24(cdrom),25(floppy),29(audio),30(dip),44(video),46(plugdev),107(fuse),109(lpadmin),115(admin),1000(dm)

dm-laptop:~/repos/atria> ls -lh .git/
total 44K
drwxr-xr-x 2 dm dm 4.0K 2009-01-18 23:24 branches
-rw-r--r-- 1 dm dm  256 2009-01-18 23:28 config
-rw-r--r-- 1 dm dm   58 2009-01-18 23:24 description
-rw-r--r-- 1 dm dm   23 2009-01-18 23:28 HEAD
drwxr-xr-x 2 dm dm 4.0K 2009-01-18 23:24 hooks
-rw-r--r-- 1 dm dm 3.8K 2009-01-18 23:28 index
drwxr-xr-x 2 dm dm 4.0K 2009-01-18 23:24 info
drwxr-xr-x 3 dm dm 4.0K 2009-01-18 23:28 logs
drwxr-xr-x 4 dm dm 4.0K 2009-01-18 23:24 objects
-rw-r--r-- 1 dm dm   94 2009-01-18 23:28 packed-refs
drwxr-xr-x 5 dm dm 4.0K 2009-01-18 23:28 refs

'dm' is a user I created while installing Ubuntu.

dm-laptop:~/repos/atria> ls -l `which gitk`
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 237778 2008-04-08 22:31 /usr/bin/gitk
dm-laptop:~/repos/atria>


-- DM

Re: gitk doesn't work w/o sudo.

[Jing Xue]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 03:46:41PM +0530, Dilip M wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> ..I recently install GIT on Ubuntu (hardy) box....I am able to use
> 'gitk' only If I do 'sudo'. Without 'sudo' it complains 'repository
> not found'

Do you have a 0027 umask?

http://www.digizenstudio.com/blog/2008/11/09/weird-git-gui-startup-problem/

HTH.
-- 
Jing Xue

Re: gitk doesn't work w/o sudo.

[Dilip M]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Jing Xue <jingxue@digizenstudio.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 03:46:41PM +0530, Dilip M wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> ..I recently install GIT on Ubuntu (hardy) box....I am able to use
>> 'gitk' only If I do 'sudo'. Without 'sudo' it complains 'repository
>> not found'
>
> Do you have a 0027 umask?
>
> http://www.digizenstudio.com/blog/2008/11/09/weird-git-gui-startup-problem/

Mine is dm-laptop:~> umask
22

So, that's not a issue.

-- DM

Re: gitk doesn't work w/o sudo.

[Brian Foster]

On Monday 19 January 2009 15:37:06 Dilip M wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Reece Dunn <msclrhd@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > 2009/1/19 Dilip M <dilipm79@gmail.com>:
> >> ..I recently install GIT on Ubuntu (hardy) box....I am able to use
> >> 'gitk' only If I do 'sudo'. Without 'sudo' it complains 'repository
> >> not found'
> >
> > Who is the owner of the repository directory (and the .git directory)
> > and what are the permissions on the directory?  [ ... ]
> 
> dm-laptop:~/repos/atria> id -a
> uid=1000(dm) gid=1000(dm)  [ ... ]
> dm-laptop:~/repos/atria> ls -lh .git/
>[... all looks Ok ...]

 repeating Reece's question, what is the permissions/owner
 _of_the_directory_which_contains_ the ‘.git/’ directory?
 I can reproduce this behaviour (git 1.6.0.4) simply by
 denying myself search (née execute) permission on that
 directory, for entirely obvious reasons.

cheers!
	-blf-
-- 
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Re: gitk doesn't work w/o sudo.

[Dilip M]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Brian Foster
<brian.foster@innova-card.com> wrote:
> On Monday 19 January 2009 15:37:06 Dilip M wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Reece Dunn <msclrhd@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> > 2009/1/19 Dilip M <dilipm79@gmail.com>:
>> >> ..I recently install GIT on Ubuntu (hardy) box....I am able to use
>> >> 'gitk' only If I do 'sudo'. Without 'sudo' it complains 'repository
>> >> not found'
>> >
>> > Who is the owner of the repository directory (and the .git directory)
>> > and what are the permissions on the directory?  [ ... ]
>>
>> dm-laptop:~/repos/atria> id -a
>> uid=1000(dm) gid=1000(dm)  [ ... ]
>> dm-laptop:~/repos/atria> ls -lh .git/
>>[... all looks Ok ...]
>
>  repeating Reece's question, what is the permissions/owner
>  _of_the_directory_which_contains_ the '.git/' directory?
>  I can reproduce this behaviour (git 1.6.0.4) simply by
>  denying myself search (née execute) permission on that
>  directory, for entirely obvious reasons.

It's the same issue....Any ENV variable I can set to debug this...?

dm-laptop:~/repos/atria> id -a
uid=1000(dm) gid=1000(dm)
groups=4(adm),20(dialout),24(cdrom),25(floppy),29(audio),30(dip),44(video),46(plugdev),107(fuse),109(lpadmin),115(admin),1000(dm)

dm-laptop:~/repos/atria> ls -ld .git
drwxr-xr-x 8 dm dm 4096 2009-01-19 22:34 .git

dm-laptop:~/repos/atria> ls -la .git
total 68
drwxr-xr-x 8 dm dm 4096 2009-01-19 22:34 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 dm dm 4096 2009-01-18 23:28 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 dm dm 4096 2009-01-18 23:24 branches
-rw-r--r-- 1 dm dm   20 2009-01-19 22:28 COMMIT_EDITMSG
-rw-r--r-- 1 dm dm  256 2009-01-18 23:28 config
-rw-r--r-- 1 dm dm   58 2009-01-18 23:24 description
-rw-r--r-- 1 dm dm   89 2009-01-19 20:15 FETCH_HEAD
-rw-r--r-- 1 dm dm   23 2009-01-19 21:49 HEAD
drwxr-xr-x 2 dm dm 4096 2009-01-18 23:24 hooks
-rw-r--r-- 1 dm dm 5280 2009-01-19 22:28 index
drwxr-xr-x 2 dm dm 4096 2009-01-19 22:34 info
drwxr-xr-x 3 dm dm 4096 2009-01-19 22:34 logs
drwxr-xr-x 4 dm dm 4096 2009-01-19 22:34 objects
-rw-r--r-- 1 dm dm   41 2009-01-19 20:15 ORIG_HEAD
-rw-r--r-- 1 dm dm  153 2009-01-19 22:34 packed-refs
drwxr-xr-x 5 dm dm 4096 2009-01-18 23:28 refs

dm-laptop:~/repos/atria> umask
22


-- DM

Re: gitk doesn't work w/o sudo.

[Matthieu Moy]

"Dilip M" <dilipm79@gmail.com> writes:

>>  repeating Reece's question, what is the permissions/owner
>>  _of_the_directory_which_contains_ the '.git/' directory?
>>  I can reproduce this behaviour (git 1.6.0.4) simply by
>>  denying myself search (née execute) permission on that
>>  directory, for entirely obvious reasons.
>
> It's the same issue....

You didn't answer the question.

> Any ENV variable I can set to debug this...?

GIT_TRACE can help.

-- 
Matthieu

Re: gitk doesn't work w/o sudo.

[Johannes Schindelin]

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Hi,

On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, Dilip M wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Brian Foster
> <brian.foster@innova-card.com> wrote:
> > On Monday 19 January 2009 15:37:06 Dilip M wrote:
> >> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Reece Dunn <msclrhd@googlemail.com> wrote:
> >> > 2009/1/19 Dilip M <dilipm79@gmail.com>:
> >> >> ..I recently install GIT on Ubuntu (hardy) box....I am able to use
> >> >> 'gitk' only If I do 'sudo'. Without 'sudo' it complains 'repository
> >> >> not found'
> >> >
> >> > Who is the owner of the repository directory (and the .git directory)
> >> > and what are the permissions on the directory?  [ ... ]
> >>
> >> dm-laptop:~/repos/atria> id -a
> >> uid=1000(dm) gid=1000(dm)  [ ... ]
> >> dm-laptop:~/repos/atria> ls -lh .git/
> >>[... all looks Ok ...]
> >
> >  repeating Reece's question, what is the permissions/owner
> >  _of_the_directory_which_contains_ the '.git/' directory?
> >  I can reproduce this behaviour (git 1.6.0.4) simply by
> >  denying myself search (née execute) permission on that
> >  directory, for entirely obvious reasons.
> 
> It's the same issue....Any ENV variable I can set to debug this...?

I'd try running it with strace, and then search the output for stat() 
calls involving <something>/.git.

Ciao,
Dscho

Re: gitk doesn't work w/o sudo.

[Dilip M]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> wrote:
> "Dilip M" <dilipm79@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>>  repeating Reece's question, what is the permissions/owner
>>>  _of_the_directory_which_contains_ the '.git/' directory?
>>>  I can reproduce this behaviour (git 1.6.0.4) simply by
>>>  denying myself search (née execute) permission on that
>>>  directory, for entirely obvious reasons.
>>
>> It's the same issue....
>
> You didn't answer the question.

Sorry..I read it for .git directory...

.git's parent directory is owned by user who us issuing gitk command
and permisssion bit of 755 is set.

dm-laptop:~/repos/atria> ls -ld .
drwxr-xr-x 6 dm dm 4096 2009-01-18 23:28 .

dm-laptop:~/repos/atria> ls -ld .git/
drwxr-xr-x 8 dm dm 4096 2009-01-20 22:22 .git/

>> Any ENV variable I can set to debug this...?
>
> GIT_TRACE can help.

I tried with that but it didn't help for gitk. But sure, it helps with
git command(s).

-- DM

Re: gitk doesn't work w/o sudo.

[Reece Dunn]

2009/1/20 Dilip M <dilipm79@gmail.com>:
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:40 PM, Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr> wrote:
>> "Dilip M" <dilipm79@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>>>  repeating Reece's question, what is the permissions/owner
>>>>  _of_the_directory_which_contains_ the '.git/' directory?
>>>>  I can reproduce this behaviour (git 1.6.0.4) simply by
>>>>  denying myself search (née execute) permission on that
>>>>  directory, for entirely obvious reasons.
>>>
>>> It's the same issue....
>>
>> You didn't answer the question.
>
> Sorry..I read it for .git directory...
>
> .git's parent directory is owned by user who us issuing gitk command
> and permisssion bit of 755 is set.
>
>>> Any ENV variable I can set to debug this...?
>>
>> GIT_TRACE can help.
>
> I tried with that but it didn't help for gitk. But sure, it helps with
> git command(s).

So can you run git commands that modify the git tree, e.g. git add? If
these are failing, that may explain why gitk is failing, and you can
use GIT_TRACE.

Also, do you know what commands are being executed by gitk that are
causing the failure you are experiencing?

Or... is your ENV (e.g. your PATH) the same for dm and root? In
particular, can they find the git commands? This would also be visible
by not being able to do things like `git log` (or, if it is an issue
with the deprecation of the `git-foo`-style command invocation, is the
GIT_EXEC_PATH set to point to the correct location and does dm have
the rights to execute it -- that is, is the x bit set for the
GIT_EXEC_PATH directory, as per
http://www.digizenstudio.com/blog/2008/11/09/weird-git-gui-startup-problem/?).

What error message are you getting from gitk? Is it possible to debug
gitk to find out what command is being executed and what error
code/exception it is returning/throwing?

- Reece

Re: gitk doesn't work w/o sudo.

[Dilip M]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Johannes Schindelin
<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> 'd try running it with strace, and then search the output for stat()
> calls involving <something>/.git.

Seems like we are almost there....here is the log..

dm-laptop:~/repos/atria> grep gitk /tmp/gitk_1.log
execve("/usr/bin/gitk", ["/usr/bin/gitk"], [/* 37 vars */]) = 0
open("/usr/bin/gitk", O_RDONLY)         = 3
execve("/usr/bin/wish8.4", ["/usr/bin/wish8.4", "/usr/bin/gitk",
"--"], [/* 37 vars */]) = 0
stat("/usr/bin/gitk", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=237778, ...}) = 0
open("/usr/bin/gitk", O_RDONLY)         = 6
lstat("/usr/share/gitk", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
lstat("/usr/share/gitk/lib", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
lstat("/usr/share/gitk/lib/msgs", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
access("/usr/share/gitk/lib/msgs/en_in.msg", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No
such file or directory)  <======
lstat("/usr/share/gitk", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
lstat("/usr/share/gitk/lib", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
lstat("/usr/share/gitk/lib/msgs", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
access("/usr/share/gitk/lib/msgs/en.msg", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such
file or directory)       <======
stat("/home/dm/.gitk", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=683, ...}) = 0
open("/home/dm/.gitk", O_RDONLY)        = 6
writev(5, [{"\22\0\7\0\16\0@\3\'\0\0\0\37\0\0\0\10NG\0\4\0\0\0gitk\20"...,
48}], 1) = 48
writev(5, [{"\22\0\7\0\16\0@\3(\1\0\0\37\1\0\0\10AME\4\0\0\0gitk\22"...,
112}], 1) = 112

dm-laptop:~/repos/atria> ls -l /usr/share/gitk/lib/msgs/en_in.msg
ls: cannot access /usr/share/gitk/lib/msgs/en_in.msg: No such file or directory

But how is it working when  I do 'sudo'..

-- DM

Re: gitk doesn't work w/o sudo.

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, Dilip M wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Johannes Schindelin
> <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> > 'd try running it with strace, and then search the output for stat()
> > calls involving <something>/.git.
> 
> Seems like we are almost there....here is the log..
> 
> dm-laptop:~/repos/atria> grep gitk /tmp/gitk_1.log
> execve("/usr/bin/gitk", ["/usr/bin/gitk"], [/* 37 vars */]) = 0
> open("/usr/bin/gitk", O_RDONLY)         = 3
> execve("/usr/bin/wish8.4", ["/usr/bin/wish8.4", "/usr/bin/gitk",
> "--"], [/* 37 vars */]) = 0
> stat("/usr/bin/gitk", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=237778, ...}) = 0
> open("/usr/bin/gitk", O_RDONLY)         = 6
> lstat("/usr/share/gitk", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
> lstat("/usr/share/gitk/lib", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
> lstat("/usr/share/gitk/lib/msgs", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
> access("/usr/share/gitk/lib/msgs/en_in.msg", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No
> such file or directory)  <======
> lstat("/usr/share/gitk", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
> lstat("/usr/share/gitk/lib", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
> lstat("/usr/share/gitk/lib/msgs", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
> access("/usr/share/gitk/lib/msgs/en.msg", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such
> file or directory)       <======
> stat("/home/dm/.gitk", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=683, ...}) = 0
> open("/home/dm/.gitk", O_RDONLY)        = 6
> writev(5, [{"\22\0\7\0\16\0@\3\'\0\0\0\37\0\0\0\10NG\0\4\0\0\0gitk\20"...,
> 48}], 1) = 48
> writev(5, [{"\22\0\7\0\16\0@\3(\1\0\0\37\1\0\0\10AME\4\0\0\0gitk\22"...,
> 112}], 1) = 112
> 
> dm-laptop:~/repos/atria> ls -l /usr/share/gitk/lib/msgs/en_in.msg
> ls: cannot access /usr/share/gitk/lib/msgs/en_in.msg: No such file or directory
> 
> But how is it working when  I do 'sudo'..

Let's find out.  You can run the strace with sudo, too.

I bet it uses another git.

Ciao,
Dscho