Error executing command as another user: Not authorized

[andy5995]

When I try to install in a GitHub workflow

Omg, why?

Error executing command as another user: Not authorized

This incident has been reported.

I tried meson install --skip-subprojects and ninja install. I'm reasonably certain I'm not trying to install to a directory I don't have access to, and even if I was, it shouldn't say I'm attempting to run a command as another user.

Full workflow: https://github.com/netpanzer/netpanzer/blob/01e61d0807e86b33be96344340d7675a81ef6421/.github/workflows/c-cpp.yml

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[dcbaker]

Because for reasons I don't understand if your run ninja install as a non-privlidiged user and attempt to install to a root location, then we try to pop up the window to type in your password for sudo.

[eli-schwartz]

I fixed that a long time ago but I think the version of meson in ancient Ubuntu is even older...

[eli-schwartz]

Also sudo doesn't have a window, we tried to pop up the window for polkit. Except now we use sudo and also check for an interactive console and also ask you if you want to do it and also print a lot of messages describing what in fact we are doing.

[eli-schwartz]

It looks like you're using GitHub Cache for the entire build directory. So running meson setup and passing the "prefix" option is having no effect.

What prefix was the cache originally configured with? I'm betting this is a bug you fixed when updating your CI configuration but the cache is preserving the bug.

Aside: this is why I would not cache the build directory, but instead use ccache and persist your CCACHE_DIR.

[andy5995]

I'm sure that must be it. Unless I've made some horrendous error with my variables or my knowledge, I'm not trying to install to any root location. I have a pending PR where I remove the cache so I think I'll just merge that, rebase, and try again. Thanks a heap!