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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0003567 | OpenFOAM | Bug | public | 2020-10-09 11:49 | 2020-11-17 11:33 |
| Reporter | skwde | Assigned To | wyldckat | ||
| Priority | normal | Severity | block | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | closed | Resolution | unable to reproduce | ||
| Platform | Unix | OS | Other | OS Version | (please specify) |
| Summary | 0003567: cannot create $FOAM_RUN direcotry in docker container | ||||
| Description | I am on a fresh centos7.7 Virtual Machine with linux kernel 3.10.0-1127.19.1.el7.x86_64. I installed docker from the docker repository. I follow the instructions, e.g. on https://openfoam.org/download/6-linux/ The container starts fine but I cannot do step 6: mkdir -p $FOAM_RUN It always triggers mkdir: cannot create directory '/home/openfoam/run': Permission denied Note, it doesn't matter if i start openfoam6-linux as root or my standard user. I have the same issue with openfoam7-linux and openfoam8-linux. | ||||
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I haven't tested on CentOS 7.7, but have tested it on Ubuntu 20.04. My guess is that there is an issues associated to SELinux, for which instructions are provided here: https://docs.docker.com/storage/bind-mounts/#configure-the-selinux-label @skwde: Please edit the file "/usr/bin/openfoam8-linux" (or similar) and find this line near the end: -v $MOUNT_DIR:$HOME_DIR \ Then change it to this: -v $MOUNT_DIR:$HOME_DIR:z \ |
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@wyldckat Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately this didn't solve the issue. I also tried to temporarily disable selinux (via setenforce 0), but I still face the same issue. Any other ideas? |
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Without having to install CentOS 7.7 on a VM myself, more details are needed... the first few that come to mind are: 1. Knowing what the following command gives you when inside the container (when you run the launching script): ls -ld $HOME echo $USER 2. Seeing what you see when the container finishes starting up... it should give additional error/warning messages. |
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Below the output you asked for. Notebly $USER is not set. export USER=openfoam does not solve the issue. id reveals that the centos uid and gid are correctly matched to the openfoam user / group. Besides, startup does not show any errors. 1. OpenFOAM-6(1) ls -ld $HOME drwxr-xr-x. 2 openfoam openfoam 2048 Oct 9 08:18 /home/openfoam OpenFOAM-6(2) echo $USER OpenFOAM-6(3) 2. $ openfoam6-linux Launching /usr/bin/openfoam6-linux User: "<MY CENTOS USER>" (ID <MY CENTOS UID>, group ID <MY CENTOS GID>) Welcome to the OpenFOAM v6 Docker Image Provides bash terminal with OpenFOAM 6 and ParaView 5.6.0 Produced and maintained by CFD Direct (https://cfd.direct), on behalf of the OpenFOAM Foundation (https://openfoam.org), the owner and distributor of OpenFOAM as free, open source software under the General Public Licence v3. Further Resources: * OpenFOAM User Guide: https://cfd.direct/openfoam/user-guide * C++ Source Guide: https://cpp.openfoam.org * OpenFOAM Training: https://cfd.direct/openfoam-training * Running in the Cloud: https://cfd.direct/cloud * Issue (Bug) Reporting: https://bugs.openfoam.org * Subscribe to Newsletter: https://cfd.direct/news * Contributors to OpenFOAM: https://openfoam.org/dev/contributors OpenFOAM-6(1) |
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It's not clear from this... without a noticeable detail, it's nearly impossible to diagnose the issue without trying it myself... The best I can do at the moment is to point you to step-by-step building instructions, provided by the community for OpenFOAM 6 + CentOS 7.5: https://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/Installation/Linux/OpenFOAM-6/CentOS_SL_RHEL#CentOS_7.5_.281804.29 This issue seems to be related to Docker and CentOS, which mostly falls outside of the OpenFOAM Foundation issue tracker's objectives. Mounting the path of a host's user folder within the Docker seems the main issue. - Either it's being signalled in the "/var/log/audit/*" files... - Or in some of Docker's own log files... |
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Alright, thanks a lot for your help anyhow. |
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I've finished just now testing this on a VM with CentOS 7 as well and was unable to reproduce this issue. Tested with both OpenFOAM 6 and 8, following the official instructions, e.g. from here: https://openfoam.org/download/8-linux/ My guess is that the missing step was the very last sentence of step #3, namely: The user must log out and log in of their account for the change to take effect. Closing this issue as "unable to reproduce". |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2020-10-09 11:49 | skwde | New Issue | |
| 2020-10-14 13:34 | wyldckat | Note Added: 0011594 | |
| 2020-10-14 13:54 | skwde | Note Added: 0011595 | |
| 2020-10-14 15:24 | wyldckat | Note Added: 0011598 | |
| 2020-10-14 15:41 | skwde | Note Added: 0011599 | |
| 2020-10-14 15:57 | wyldckat | Note Added: 0011600 | |
| 2020-10-14 16:05 | skwde | Note Added: 0011601 | |
| 2020-11-17 11:33 | wyldckat | Assigned To | => wyldckat |
| 2020-11-17 11:33 | wyldckat | Status | new => closed |
| 2020-11-17 11:33 | wyldckat | Resolution | open => unable to reproduce |
| 2020-11-17 11:33 | wyldckat | Note Added: 0011688 |
