rbenv: cannot change working directory to `/root' about ruby_rbenv HOT 10 CLOSED

Ever figure this one out?

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@axsuul, not yet.
I think the solution lies in the discussion of this issue:

http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/CHEF-2288

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I actually got around this issue, sorry I never came back to update this. See this commit in my fork axsuul@f5b1477

It has to do with modifying sudoers. It's not the cleanest solution but at least it works.

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Oops! I totally referred to the wrong commit. Sorry it's been awhile. I believe this is the correct commit: axsuul@c0c42fe

Were you running into this issue when installing for multiple users?

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I experienced this issue when doing app deploys with Chef. If I ran Chef as root from /root, then it would fail with:

STDERR: rbenv: cannot change working directory to `/root'

I have an execute resource which runs as a non-root user, and it failed when running rbenv exec bundle exec .... Setting the environment PWD, and doing cwd in the Chef execute resource did not resolve the issue.

Running chef-client from an accessible directory to the target user obviously avoided the issue, but wasn't sensible.

If you look at the rbenv source line where the error is generated, you'll see that RBENV_DIR is the variable responsible. Setting that to an appropriate directory resolves this issue, as otherwise rbenv will set it to pwd, which returns /root. For instance

execute "rbenv exec bundle install --path=/vendor/bundle --deployment --without #{common_groups} --binstubs" do
  cwd new_resource.release_path
  user new_resource.owner
  environment new_resource.environment.update({
    "RBENV_DIR" => new_resource.release_path
  })
end

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@axsuul Did you have any plans to push those changes back upstream?

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Yeah, pull requests welcome !

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I'm now using this fork: https://github.com/muskox/chef-rbenv due to this issue: #98

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#98 is fixed here also

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