I am self-taught on ERPNext setup and i am not much of a coder so I’ve hit several brick-walls in the past when setting up ERPNext on GCP so don’t mind me taking the easiest route by following the script line for line.
This point is noted and pretty obvious particularly when you login to terminal. However
The point made here suggests that with sudo privilege added to the default user created by GCP (which in this if the first part of your account email as noted above), for commands such as bench update, you don’t have to initiate the command by adding “sudo” at the beginning of the command as the user assumes sudo privileges already. However, i have set up several ERPNext instances on GCP and each time i try to run scripts such as updates, upgrades or even renew ssl certificates, i always hit a permission denied error. For example
felix@erpnext:/home/frappe/frappe-bench$ bench update
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/local/bin/bench”, line 11, in
load_entry_point(‘bench’, ‘console_scripts’, ‘bench’)()
File “/home/frappe/.bench/bench/cli.py”, line 40, in cli
bench_command()
File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/click/core.py”, line 722, in call
return self.main(*args, **kwargs)
File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/click/core.py”, line 697, in main
rv = self.invoke(ctx)
File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/click/core.py”, line 1063, in invoke
Command.invoke(self, ctx)
File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/click/core.py”, line 895, in invoke
return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params)
File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/click/core.py”, line 535, in invoke
return callback(*args, **kwargs)
File “/home/frappe/.bench/bench/commands/init.py”, line 31, in bench_command
setup_logging(bench_path=bench_path)
File “/home/frappe/.bench/bench/utils.py”, line 293, in setup_logging
hdlr = logging.FileHandler(log_file)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/logging/init.py”, line 913, in init
StreamHandler.init(self, self._open())
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/logging/init.py”, line 943, in _open
stream = open(self.baseFilename, self.mode)
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: ‘/home/frappe/frappe-bench/logs/bench.log’
felix@erpnext:/home/frappe/frappe-bench$
As you can see above, i hit an IOError because i ran bench update without the sudo prefix. Compare that to:
felix@erpnext:/home/frappe/frappe-bench$ sudo bench update
INFO:bench.utils:updating bench
INFO:bench.utils:git pull
Already up-to-date.
INFO:bench.utils:./env/bin/pip install Pillow
Requirement already satisfied: Pillow in ./env/lib/python2.7/site-packages
Requirement already satisfied: olefile in ./env/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from Pillow)
You are using pip version 9.0.3, however version 10.0.1 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the ‘pip install --upgrade pip’ command.
INFO:bench.app:pulling frappe
INFO:bench.utils:git pull upstream master
From GitHub - frappe/frappe: Low code web framework for real world applications, in Python and Javascript
- branch master → FETCH_HEAD
Already up-to-date.
INFO:bench.utils:find . -name “*.pyc” -delete
INFO:bench.app:pulling erpnext
INFO:bench.utils:git pull upstream master
remote: Counting objects: 83, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (26/26), done.
remote: Total 83 (delta 68), reused 72 (delta 57), pack-reused 0
error: insufficient permission for adding an object to repository database .git/objects
fatal: failed to write object
fatal: unpack-objects failed
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/local/bin/bench”, line 11, in
load_entry_point(‘bench’, ‘console_scripts’, ‘bench’)()
File “/home/frappe/.bench/bench/cli.py”, line 40, in cli
bench_command()
File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/click/core.py”, line 722, in call
return self.main(*args, **kwargs)
File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/click/core.py”, line 697, in main
rv = self.invoke(ctx)
File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/click/core.py”, line 1066, in invoke
return _process_result(sub_ctx.command.invoke(sub_ctx))
File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/click/core.py”, line 895, in invoke
return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params)
File “/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/click/core.py”, line 535, in invoke
return callback(*args, **kwargs)
File “/home/frappe/.bench/bench/commands/update.py”, line 60, in update
_update(pull, patch, build, bench, auto, restart_supervisor, restart_systemd, requirements, no_backup, force=fo
rce, reset=reset)
File “/home/frappe/.bench/bench/commands/update.py”, line 73, in _update
pull_all_apps(bench_path=bench_path, reset=reset)
File “/home/frappe/.bench/bench/app.py”, line 240, in pull_all_apps
remote=remote, branch=get_current_branch(app, bench_path=bench_path)), cwd=app_dir)
File “/home/frappe/.bench/bench/utils.py”, line 153, in exec_cmd
raise CommandFailedError(cmd)
bench.utils.CommandFailedError: git pull upstream master
felix@erpnext:/home/frappe/frappe-bench$
As you can see, the script runs without an IOError (although it seems there’s an issue with .git again). So unless i am missing something here, there is something uncanny about the way GCP handles ERPNext when it comes to user permissions.
