PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/srv/nominatim/nominatim-planet/tokenizer'

[alansenairj]

nominatim@instance-20211209-1021:~/nominatim-planet$ nominatim import --osm-file brazil-latest.osm.pbf 2>&1 |tee setup.log
tee: setup.log: Permission denied
2021-12-09 22:10:49: Using project directory: /srv/nominatim/nominatim-planet
2021-12-09 22:10:49: Creating database
2021-12-09 22:10:50: Setting up country tables
2021-12-09 22:10:51: Importing OSM data file
2021-12-09 22:10:51 osm2pgsql version 1.5.1 (1.5.1-4-gbd7b4440)
2021-12-09 22:10:51 Database version: 12.9 (Ubuntu 12.9-0ubuntu0.20.04.1)
2021-12-09 22:10:51 PostGIS version: 3.0
2021-12-09 22:10:51 Parsing gazetteer style file '/usr/local/etc/nominatim/import-extratags.style'.
NOTICE: table "place" does not exist, skipping
2021-12-09 22:30:29 Reading input files done in 1178s (19m 38s).
2021-12-09 22:30:29 Processed 224212875 nodes in 802s (13m 22s) - 280k/s
2021-12-09 22:30:29 Processed 16262650 ways in 338s (5m 38s) - 48k/s
2021-12-09 22:30:29 Processed 301147 relations in 38s - 8k/s
2021-12-09 22:30:30 Done postprocessing on table 'planet_osm_nodes' in 0s
2021-12-09 22:30:30 Done postprocessing on table 'planet_osm_ways' in 0s
2021-12-09 22:30:30 Done postprocessing on table 'planet_osm_rels' in 0s
2021-12-09 22:30:30 osm2pgsql took 1179s (19m 39s) overall.
2021-12-09 22:30:30: Create functions (1st pass)
2021-12-09 22:30:31: Create tables
2021-12-09 22:30:32: Create functions (2nd pass)
2021-12-09 22:30:32: Create table triggers
2021-12-09 22:30:32: Create partition tables
2021-12-09 22:30:37: Create functions (3rd pass)
2021-12-09 22:30:37: Importing wikipedia importance data
2021-12-09 22:34:07: Initialise tables
2021-12-09 22:34:09: Load data into placex table
........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................2021-12-09 22:42:55: Setting up tokenizer

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/nominatim", line 11, in
exit(cli.nominatim(module_dir='/usr/local/lib/nominatim/module',
File "/usr/local/lib/nominatim/lib-python/nominatim/cli.py", line 235, in nominatim
return parser.run(**kwargs)
File "/usr/local/lib/nominatim/lib-python/nominatim/cli.py", line 96, in run
return args.command.run(args)
File "/usr/local/lib/nominatim/lib-python/nominatim/clicmd/setup.py", line 101, in run
tokenizer = SetupAll._get_tokenizer(args.continue_at, args.config)
File "/usr/local/lib/nominatim/lib-python/nominatim/clicmd/setup.py", line 171, in _get_tokenizer
return tokenizer_factory.create_tokenizer(config)
File "/usr/local/lib/nominatim/lib-python/nominatim/tokenizer/factory.py", line 50, in create_tokenizer
basedir.mkdir()
File "/usr/lib/python3.8/pathlib.py", line 1288, in mkdir
self._accessor.mkdir(self, mode)
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/srv/nominatim/nominatim-planet/tokenizer'

[ramazotti7]

Hi alansenairj
have you find the problem?
Best regards, Rainer

[alansenairj]

Hi Rainer. It is all ok here. It is working well. Thank you!

Just to register it if someone got this problem too, the error up here was related to user permissions. You must pay attention on it.

[germinadaniel]

Can you tell us, please, how you managed the error? I'm trying to continue the import-data proccess with 'nominatim import --continue db-postprocess', and I'm getting the error:

2022-03-29 17:40:19: Using project directory: /srv/nominatim/nominatim-planet
2022-03-29 17:40:19: Setting up tokenizer
2022-03-29 17:40:19: Cannot find tokenizer data in '/srv/nominatim/nominatim-planet/tokenizer'.
2022-03-29 17:40:19: FATAL: Cannot initialize tokenizer.

Thanks for the attention.

[mtmail]

@germinadaniel Can you create a new discussion instead? It's a different error message and likely a different issue. Please mention operating system, exact Nominatim versiona and URL of install instructions you followed.

[Marcellia]

I came across this same issue: It is related to user permissions, the below helped me fix it. I believe for me the issue was granting executable permissions (point 2)

If you are following the official documentation -

1. Assuming you have already created nominatim user sudo useradd -d /srv/nominatim -s /bin/bash -m nominatim
2. Check the permissions of the directory & ensure that all users have read and write permissions. chmod a+x /srv/nominatim
3. Check that you have created nominatim as the super user, with permission to create DB sudo -u postgres createuser -s nominatim
4. Also, make sure you are logged in as nominatim user before importing the data sudo -u nominatim bash