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gitea --help fails #25938

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remram44 opened this issue Jul 17, 2023 · 2 comments · Fixed by #25944
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gitea --help fails #25938

remram44 opened this issue Jul 17, 2023 · 2 comments · Fixed by #25944
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Running gitea --help will fail to show the help message if I don't have write permissions to the folder:

$ /opt/gitea --help
2023/07/17 14:00:02 ...s/setting/setting.go:109:LoadCommonSettings() [F] Unable to load settings from config: unable to create chunked upload directory: /opt/data/tmp/package-upload (mkdir /opt/data: permission denied)

Gitea Version

1.20.0

Can you reproduce the bug on the Gitea demo site?

No

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2.25.1

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Linux amd64 (Ubuntu 20.04)

How are you running Gitea?

Downloaded the official binary

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A workaround is to set GITEA_WORK_DIR, for example:

$ GITEA_WORK_DIR=/tmp/test-gitea /opt/gitea --help

This will work, but will also create the folders /tmp/test-gitea/data/tmp/package-upload, which seems wrong for just running --help...?

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I also noticed that there is a package-upload in my work-path .... Will fix it

@wxiaoguang wxiaoguang mentioned this issue Jul 18, 2023
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jolheiser pushed a commit that referenced this issue Jul 18, 2023
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Avoid creating directories when loading config (#25944)
cc73e84 
The "creating dir/file during load config" is a longstanding and complex
problem.

This PR only does a quick patch, it still needs more refactorings in the
future.

Fix #25938
wxiaoguang added a commit to wxiaoguang/gitea that referenced this issue Jul 18, 2023
@wxiaoguang
Avoid creating directories when loading config (go-gitea#25944)
7579415 
The "creating dir/file during load config" is a longstanding and complex
problem.

This PR only does a quick patch, it still needs more refactorings in the
future.

Fix go-gitea#25938
@wxiaoguang wxiaoguang mentioned this issue Jul 18, 2023
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@jolheiser jolheiser mentioned this issue Jul 18, 2023
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lafriks pushed a commit that referenced this issue Jul 18, 2023
@wxiaoguang
Avoid creating directories when loading config (#25944) (#25957)
5c3662b 
Backport #25944

The "creating dir/file during load config" is a longstanding and complex
problem.

This PR only does a quick patch, it still needs more refactorings in the
future.

Fix #25938
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Avoid creating directories when loading config (go-gitea#25944) (go-g…
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…itea#25957)

Backport go-gitea#25944

The "creating dir/file during load config" is a longstanding and complex
problem.

This PR only does a quick patch, it still needs more refactorings in the
future.

Fix go-gitea#25938

(cherry picked from commit 5c3662b)
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