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Install Lemmy from Scratch docs seem broken (join-lemmy.org)

submitted 2 years ago by KIM_JONG_JUICEBOX@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

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I'm trying this on Ubuntu 22.04 Rust's cargo install seems to keep creating permission problems between what I have to install, compile and what gets published in the cargo "registry", which causes issues at runtime when I run as lemmy:lemmy through systemctl.

If I run: cargo install lemmy_server --target-dir /usr/bin/ --locked --features embed-pictrs as a non-root user, I get permission denied issues with /usr/bin/.future-incompat-report.json and /usr/bin/release

If I run the build as a root user, and then manually copy the binaries to /usr/bin and chmod them to lemmy:lemmy, then try to run as lemmy:lemmy, it appears the binary is trying to access some "registry" files in /root/.cargo/registry (for which of course it does not have permissions.)

How do I fix this?

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[–] KIM_JONG_JUICEBOX@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (9 children)

So I am able to build from the git repo.

Had to remove rust from apt (v 1.65)

And install rust from rustup (v 1.70)

That fixes the build, but now I still get this db migrations error on startup.

Jun 09 15:47:37 ip-x systemd[1]: Started Lemmy - A link aggregator for the fediverse.
Jun 09 15:47:37 ip-x lemmy_server[15239]: 2023-06-09T15:47:37.238544Z  INFO lemmy_db_schema::utils: Running Database migrations (This may take a long time)...
Jun 09 15:47:37 ip-x lemmy_server[15239]: thread 'main' panicked at 'Couldn't run DB Migrations', crates/db_schema/src/utils.rs:165:25
Jun 09 15:47:37 ip-x lemmy_server[15239]: note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace
Jun 09 15:47:37 ip-x systemd[1]: lemmy.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=101/n/a

I know it can connect to the db because I see it created some tables already.

I wonder if this is related to this warning regarding schema, which I see during the build.

warning: /root/git-clones/lemmy/crates/api_common/Cargo.toml: `default-features` is ignored for lemmy_db_schema, since `default-features` was not specified for `workspace.dependencies.lemmy_db_schema`, this could become a hard error in the future

[–] RoundSparrow@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (8 children)

> thread 'main' panicked at 'Couldn't run DB Migrations', crates/db_schema/src/utils.rs:165:25

I fixed this by issuing:

sudo -iu postgres psql -c “ALTER USER lemmy WITH SUPERUSER;”

Obviously this has database security implications, but at least it identified that was why DB Migrations is failing.

EDIT: I found the developers of Lemmy seem to have identified the cause for this, it's just a couple SQL statements: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/2983/commits/29c4144e61e97e895fb7eb37d2c257c8520fd6a6

EDIT 2: The developers are currently treating this as a documentation bug: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-docs/issues/201

[–] KIM_JONG_JUICEBOX@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Thank you!

So the git based build instructions from @Grouchy@lemmy.grouchysysadmin.com works.

What was missing for me was then the rust version and the full list of sql commands.

1. Rust version

Remove rust installed from Ubuntu apt repo (v 1.65)
Install rust from rustup (v 1.70)

2. Postgres commands

sudo -iu postgres psql -c "CREATE USER lemmy WITH PASSWORD 'db-passwd';"
sudo -iu postgres psql -c "CREATE DATABASE lemmy WITH OWNER lemmy;"
sudo -iu postgres psql -c "ALTER USER lemmy WITH SUPERUSER;"

[–] Grouchy@lemmy.grouchysysadmin.com 2 points 2 years ago

I'm glad you got it working :)

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