[bug] Error creating storage backend (installation)

[rphlmm]

Describe the bug with a clear and concise description of what the bug is.

Binary installation failed in the last step (./gotosocial --config-path ./config.yaml server start).
The server is unable to start: "error executing command: error creating storage backend: error opening disk storage: mkdir /gotosocial: permission denied"

PostgreSQL db info:
| raphaelmartinfr_gots | raphaelmartinfr_gots | UTF8 | en_US.UTF-8 | en_US.UTF-8 | pg_default | 9623 K

What's your GoToSocial Version?

v0.11.0-rc2

GoToSocial Arch

linux amd64 Binary

What happened?

[raphaelmartinfr@s21 gotosocial]$ ./gotosocial --config-path ./config.yaml server start
func=cache.(*Caches).Init level=INFO msg="init: 0xc000ce4fc0"
func=cache.(*GTSCaches).initAccount level=INFO msg="Account cache size = 7024"
func=cache.(*GTSCaches).initAccountNote level=INFO msg="AccountNote cache size = 289"
func=cache.(*GTSCaches).initApplication level=INFO msg="Application cache size = 47"
func=cache.(*GTSCaches).initBlock level=INFO msg="Block cache size = 1447"
func=cache.(*GTSCaches).initBlockIDs level=INFO msg="Block IDs cache size = 1505"
func=cache.(*GTSCaches).initBoostOfIDs level=INFO msg="BoostofIDs cache size = 1505"
func=cache.(*GTSCaches).initEmoji level=INFO msg="Emoji cache size = 1339"
func=cache.(*GTSCaches).initEmojiCategory level=INFO msg="EmojiCategory cache size = 49"
func=cache.(*GTSCaches).initFollow level=INFO msg="Follow cache size = 1922"
func=cache.(*GTSCaches).initFollowIDs level=INFO msg="Follow IDs cache size = 2007"
func=cache.(*GTSCaches).initFollowRequest level=INFO msg="FollowRequest cache size = 961"
func=cache.(*GTSCaches).initFollowRequestIDs level=INFO msg="Follow Request IDs cache size = 1003"
func=cache.(*GTSCaches).initInReplyToIDs level=INFO msg="InReplyTo IDs cache size = 1505"
func=cache.(*GTSCaches).initInstance level=INFO msg="Instance cache size = 426"
func=cache.(*GTSCaches).initList level=INFO msg="List cache size = 1445"
func=cache.(*GTSCaches).initListEntry level=INFO msg="ListEntry cache size = 1472"
func=cache.(*GTSCaches).initMarker level=INFO msg="Marker cache size = 246"
func=cache.(*GTSCaches).initMedia level=INFO msg="Media cache size = 1637"
func=cache.(*GTSCaches).initMention level=INFO msg="Mention cache size = 2362"
func=cache.(*GTSCaches).initNotification level=INFO msg="Notification cache size = 2415"
func=cache.(*GTSCaches).initReport level=INFO msg="Report cache size = 431"
func=cache.(*GTSCaches).initStatus level=INFO msg="Status cache size = 7114"
func=cache.(*GTSCaches).initStatusFave level=INFO msg="StatusFave cache size = 2399"
func=cache.(*GTSCaches).initTag level=INFO msg="Tag cache size = 1469"
func=cache.(*GTSCaches).initStatusFaveIDs level=INFO msg="StatusFave IDs cache size = 1505"
func=cache.(*GTSCaches).initTombstone level=INFO msg="Tombstone cache size = 969"
func=cache.(*GTSCaches).initUser level=INFO msg="User cache size = 107"
func=cache.(*GTSCaches).initWebfinger level=INFO msg="Webfinger cache size = 1688"
func=cache.(*VisibilityCache).Init level=INFO msg="Visibility cache size = 7239"
func=cache.(*Caches).Start level=INFO msg="start: 0xc000ce4fc0"
func=bundb.pgConn level=INFO msg="connected to POSTGRES database"
func=migrations.init.35.func1.1 level=INFO msg="dropping previous statuses index, please wait and don't interrupt it (this may take a while)"
func=migrations.init.35.func1.1 level=INFO msg="creating new statuses index, please wait and don't interrupt it (this may take a while)"
func=bundb.doMigration level=INFO msg="MIGRATED DATABASE TO group #2 (31 migrations (20220710153020 ... 20230724100000))"
func=bundb.(*adminDB).CreateInstanceAccount level=INFO msg="instance account blog.raphaelmartin.fr CREATED with id 01DWKP2XPFRBB1FY1BFYYJWJJ2"
func=bundb.(*adminDB).CreateInstanceInstance level=INFO msg="created instance instance blog.raphaelmartin.fr with id 01C2FHA2KKVWQRNPZ40NYV161K"
func=cache.(*Caches).Stop level=INFO msg="stop: 0xc000ce4fc0"
2023/08/12 17:05:37 error executing command: error creating storage backend: error opening disk storage: mkdir /gotosocial: permission denied

What you expected to happen?

No response

How to reproduce it?

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Anything else we need to know?

No response

[daenney]

This is a configuration issue. You've got something pointed at /gotosocial, probably the storage-local-base-path, but the process isn't allowed to create that directory tree.

You'll need to reconfigure that to point at something the user gotosocial runs as is allowed to write to.

[daenney]

I'm going to close this for now as this is most probably a configuration issue. When the storage-backend is set to local, GtS will try to create the necessary directory structure as indicated by storage-local-base-path. This needs to be an area GtS can write to. If you're running from within a container, you have to mount a volume at that path, as shown in the docker-compose example.

The full docs on how to configure storage can be found on: https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/configuration/storage/.