Re: Fatal error messages

[Alasdair McAndrew]

Hello Valentin,
Many thanks - your thought about write access was right on the money.  For 
reasons I can't determine, the folder in which I'm working had user write 
access removed, so its permissions were dr-xr-xr-x instead of drwxr-xr-x as 
they should have been.  I don't know how I removed the write access, but indeed 
I did; it's now been re-instated and all works well (phew).

Alasdair

On Saturday 26 February 2022 21:34:04 (+11:00), Valentin Petzel wrote:

> Hello Alasdair,
> midi appears to create a temporary file. The error seems to happen in line 51
> in midi-stream.cc. This temporary file should be placed in the current working
> directory if I’m correct.
>
> Can you make sure you do have write access to the drive? If so, could it be
> that you have some sort of sandbox or AV thats hindering Lilypond to write
> files?
>
> Valentin
>
> Am Samstag, 26. Februar 2022, 01:40:20 CET schrieb Alasdair McAndrew:
> > I've been using Lilypond, with Frescobaldi, on Linux happily for ages. But
> > today, when I tried to compile a few bars in Frescobaldi, I got the error:
> >
> >
> > fatal error: cannot create temp file: my_music_file.midi. 40227fc:
> > Permission denied
> >
> >
> > This is a first for me, and I tried running Lilypond on an old file, which
> > had compiled successfully before - again the same error. But also, when I
> > commented out the "midi" part of my score block, I got a new error:
> >
> >
> > Drawing systems...guile: uncaught throw to system-error: (("open-
> fdes"
> > "~A" ("Permission denied") (13)))
> >
> >
> > Clearly something has gone very wrong - but what? How do I find out where
> > the problem is, and how to fix it?
> >
> >
> > Note that Lilypond always writes its files into the current directory, of
> > which I have full user permission. I don't know if Lilypond writes
> > temporary files into another directory (say "/tmp") but there's plenty of
> > room there - it's not as though the filesystem is full.
> >
> >
> > Anyway, at the moment Lilypond is not working, and I don't know how to fix
> > it - so any help or advice will be very gratefully received!
> >
> >
> > Oh: Lilypond 2.22.1, and on a fairly recently upgraded Arch Linux
> >
> >
> > cheers and thanks,
> > Alasdair
>
>
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