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?
It probably does something to the code to enable the hand-off of the pictures, but doesn't actually setup everything automatically. Not sure, just guessing.
pictrs(when run as a server) runs its own server, but it needs the /usr/bin/magick binary from ImageMagick, and it doesn't do a good job of complaining about it in the logs when it can't find that binary.it's a good catch if indeed you found it runs as root. I wonder of the Ansible instructions create an account for it.