Error on Linux: Could not cleanup temporary directory. Exiting.

[cmonty14]

Hello Jan,

I want to run script yubiset.sh on Linux (Arch Linux) as normal user w/o root.

[thomas@pc7-cubi3 bash]$ sh yubiset.sh 
ERROR: Could not cleanup temporary directory. Exiting.

I assume (and hope) that the script can run w/o root permission.

How can I proceed from here?
Please advise.

Regards
Thomas

[JanMosigItemis]

Hi Thomas,

thanks for the report. The script is designed to run w/o root permissions, i. e. it does only manipulate files in your home dir (~). I guess this error has nothing to do with permissions.

I'll look into this problem during the week. Keep an eye out on updates.

[JanMosigItemis]

I guess the relevant call is this one:

yubiset/unix/bash/lib/bootstrap.sh

Line 38 in 5b10d0b

rm -rf "${yubiset_temp_dir}" > /dev/null 2>&1 || { cleanup; end_with_error "Could not cleanup temporary directory.";}

I did set up a docker container with archlinux base image and ran yubiset.sh as a user and it did work.

Two things come to mind:

• Permission issue, i. e. is your user permitted to create dirs in /tmp ?
• Shell issue. Do you use bash as sh?

You may try:
Change the line to rm -rf "${yubiset_temp_dir}" || { cleanup; end_with_error "Could not cleanup temporary directory.";}. When running yubiset, an error message may appear. Please post it here.

[cmonty14]

I guess the relevant call is this one:

yubiset/unix/bash/lib/bootstrap.sh

Line 38 in 5b10d0b

rm -rf "${yubiset_temp_dir}" > /dev/null 2>&1 || { cleanup; end_with_error "Could not cleanup temporary directory.";}

I did set up a docker container with archlinux base image and ran yubiset.sh as a user and it did work.

Two things come to mind:

• Permission issue, i. e. is your user permitted to create dirs in /tmp ?
• Shell issue. Do you use bash as sh?

You may try:
Change the line to rm -rf "${yubiset_temp_dir}" || { cleanup; end_with_error "Could not cleanup temporary directory.";}. When running yubiset, an error message may appear. Please post it here.

Hi Jan,
I'm using bash.

I will implement the correction and communicate an update here.

Regards
Thomas