JavaScript Error upon opening Inky with another User in Linux #899
Description
Greetings,
found a (non fatal) bug by accident.
What?
It says
A JavaScript error occurred in the main process
and
Uncaught Exception: EACCES: persmission denied, mkdir '/tmp/Inky_complie/-Untitled_link_xxxx'
Where?
Linux Debian Bullseye with 6.x Kernel
Using whatever Inky was up to date in your repo five days ago from now
How
I tend to start Inky / Inkle from the shell at my device. Today I had a root shell open and forget about it belonging to root. Some time later, I came back to that shell and thought "well, that may be a good place to call Inky from"... and did so. It turned up, and just when I hit "open" and was confused by the file selection dialogue ( as it suddenly did know about all devices mount points and stuff ) I noticed, that I did open it in a root shell.
Well... I closed that. And called it again with my normal user. This should have worked, but instead I ended up with that error message.
how to solve
thankfully, that seems like an easy to navigate around error; I just deleted the /tmp/Inkly_complie folder from another root shell. And now it starts again.
That happend, because the tmp folders Inky folder was created with the user I started it first today... which was root. And of course, the normal user may not mkdir inside a folder that does belong to root.
What now
I will leave that here for others to note... and I would like to suggest, that you have a look at what happens upon closing the application. I dunno if you have a good hook for that on closing, but removing that temp dir may work, or giving it 777 upon creation could do well too. Or something else I did not think about yet.