ros as root - common bug, when workspace is in /home/user/ros_workspace

asked 2012-06-11 21:19:45 -0500

Flowers
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updated 2014-01-28 17:12:38 -0500

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Hey guys,

I tried to run some ROS-Packages as root and got this:

Warning: error while crawling /home/username: boost::filesystem::status: Permission denied: "/home/username/.gvfs"

According to some google research, this is a common bug - somehow .gvfs denies any access for anyone who is not the user.

My setup of shell&environment was absolutly fine, once I copied the workspace to another path(/home/ros_workspace) there was no problem :-)

This is no real question, but I thought it might be helpful to mention this problem.

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Probably best to file a bug instead: http://www.ros.org/wiki/Tickets

Asomerville ( 2012-06-12 04:25:49 -0500 )edit

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answered 2012-06-11 22:41:27 -0500

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Why are you running ROS packages as root from the workspace of another user? That is likely that actual problem.

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Because I thought it would be useful in that situation ;-) and the system has one user(me) and root...usually root should have access to everything which it has not, so I reported this.

Flowers ( 2012-06-12 01:41:03 -0500 )edit

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Good to be aware of. The message is "don't run as root", and especially "don't build anything as root".

joq ( 2012-06-12 02:21:30 -0500 )edit

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answered 2012-06-12 03:12:54 -0500

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Update:

You actually can start from /home/user/.../ros_workspace, still some features are not available due to the bug(e.g. using tab to auto-complete commands and package-names).

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