Error: cannot open .git/FETCH_HEAD: Permission denied

ERPNext
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Dear all,

I have the below error during update of our server. Never had this before, can somebody advise what to do?

Already up-to-date.
INFO:bench.app:pulling erpnext
error: cannot open .git/FETCH_HEAD: Permission denied

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/bin/bench", line 9, in <module>
    load_entry_point('bench', 'console_scripts', 'bench')()
  File "/home/frappe/bench-repo/bench/cli.py", line 40, in cli
    bench_command()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 664, in __call__
    return self.main(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 644, in main
    rv = self.invoke(ctx)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 991, in invoke
    return _process_result(sub_ctx.command.invoke(sub_ctx))
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 837, in invoke
    return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 464, in invoke
    return callback(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/frappe/bench-repo/bench/commands/update.py", line 62, in update
    _update(pull, patch, build, bench, auto, restart_supervisor, requirements, no_backup, upgrade, force=force, reset=reset)
  File "/home/frappe/bench-repo/bench/commands/update.py", line 78, in _update
    pull_all_apps(bench_path=bench_path, reset=reset)
  File "/home/frappe/bench-repo/bench/app.py", line 146, in pull_all_apps
    remote=remote, branch=get_current_branch(app, bench_path=bench_path)), cwd=app_dir)
  File "/home/frappe/bench-repo/bench/utils.py", line 127, in exec_cmd
    raise CommandFailedError(cmd)
bench.utils.CommandFailedError: git pull  upstream master

Thanks in advance for your support.

Regards,
Ahmed

2

That is mean you don’t have Permission on erpnext folder.
try to change the Permission and try to do update with:

sudo bench update

3

Thanks for responding.

I tried sudo bench update but I got the exact same error. I don’t recall changing any permissions whatsoever, yet can you guide me on how to check and set permissions for erpnext folder?

4

Will this help in checking permissions?
root@work:/home/frappe/frappe-bench/apps# ls -l erpnext
total 80
-rw-rw-r-- 1 frappe frappe 200 Apr 20 2015 attributions.md
drwxrwxr-x 32 frappe frappe 4096 Jan 24 03:14 erpnext
drwxrwxr-x 2 frappe frappe 4096 Apr 20 2015 erpnext.egg-info
-rw-r–r-- 1 frappe frappe 34913 Nov 17 03:09 license.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 frappe frappe 532 Apr 20 2015 MANIFEST.in
-rw-r–r-- 1 frappe frappe 4620 Jan 5 08:41 README.md
-rw-rw-r-- 1 frappe frappe 17 Apr 20 2015 requirements.txt
-rw-r–r-- 1 frappe frappe 790 Aug 15 05:53 setup.py
-rw-r–r-- 1 frappe frappe 1708 Aug 15 05:53 sponsors.md
drwxrwxr-x 3 frappe frappe 4096 Nov 17 03:09 test_sites
drwxr-xr-x 2 frappe frappe 4096 Aug 15 05:53 travis
root@work:/home/frappe/frappe-bench/apps# stat erpnext
File: ‘erpnext’
Size: 4096 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 4096 directory
Device: fd01h/64769d Inode: 1326105 Links: 8
Access: (0775/drwxrwxr-x) Uid: ( 1000/ frappe) Gid: ( 1000/ frappe)
Access: 2017-02-06 12:00:02.915932730 -0500
Modify: 2017-01-05 08:41:27.332952328 -0500
Change: 2017-01-05 08:41:27.332952328 -0500
Birth: -
root@work:/home/frappe/frappe-bench/apps#

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error: cannot open .git/FETCH_HEAD: Permission denied

cd /apps/custom_app/

/apps/custom_app/ sudo chown -R frappe .git/