Cargo: Permission denied (os error 13) when cargo build

[yyh1102]

Problem
After i install rust and cargo using curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh, and try to build a new project, An error threw:

And if i use sudo cargo build, it fix.
But at some situation i have to use just cargo build, how can i solve the problem?

Notes
OS: mac OS Mojave 10.14.3
Output of cargo version: cargo 1.33.0 (f099fe94b 2019-02-12)

[ehuss]

It sounds like there are some permission issues in your home directory. You may have better luck asking on one of the forums (like https://users.rust-lang.org/) or maybe one of the chat platforms (like Discord).

[collin5]

@yyh1102 Have you tried changing permissions of your cargo home dir. i.e

$ sudo chown -R $(whoami) /Users/lowesyang/.cargo/

[ehuss]

I'm going to close this, this does not seem to be a cargo issue.

[jeromegn]

I've started getting the same recently, I ran it with RUST_LOG=debug and got:

$ RUST_LOG=debug RUST_BACKTRACE=1 cargo build --bin runner
...
[2019-04-10T20:17:35Z DEBUG globset] built glob set; 0 literals, 2 basenames, 0 extensions, 0 prefixes, 0 suffixes, 0 required extensions, 1 regexes
[2019-04-10T20:17:35Z INFO  cargo::util::rustc] updated rustc info cache
[2019-04-10T20:17:35Z DEBUG cargo] exit_with_error; err=CliError { error: Some(Os { code: 13, kind: PermissionDenied, message: "Permission denied" }

stack backtrace:
   0: failure::backtrace::internal::InternalBacktrace::new::h8d6d9abeadb47698 (0x560037bbe9f3)
   1: failure::backtrace::Backtrace::new::hc66590c50d3d5a2a (0x560037bbe69f)
   2: cargo::sources::path::PathSource::walk::h156df4e3b728b6cd (0x5600376ea601)
   3: cargo::sources::path::PathSource::walk::h156df4e3b728b6cd (0x5600376ea955)
   4: cargo::sources::path::PathSource::list_files::h7bdb580f82226180 (0x5600376e761e)
   5: cargo::sources::path::PathSource::last_modified_file::h327eac454607eb9c (0x5600376eabcd)
   6: <cargo::sources::path::PathSource<'cfg> as cargo::core::source::Source>::fingerprint::he55956dc9cd9bc4c (0x5600376eb815)
   7: cargo::core::compiler::fingerprint::pkg_fingerprint::hc05670626ba10a80 (0x56003775cc9c)
   8: cargo::core::compiler::fingerprint::prepare_build_cmd::hb5f29c2698ba1b07 (0x560037759366)
   9: cargo::core::compiler::custom_build::prepare::h28cf21ba620f65f9 (0x560037511e7b)
  10: cargo::core::compiler::compile::h87829c6f40288c15 (0x56003775ef06)
  11: cargo::core::compiler::compile::h87829c6f40288c15 (0x56003775f4ab)
  12: cargo::core::compiler::compile::h87829c6f40288c15 (0x56003775f4ab)
  13: cargo::core::compiler::context::Context::compile::hc59394fe8834cb3d (0x5600376d2ce4)
  14: cargo::ops::cargo_compile::compile_ws::hcd03deb2dd8e37c3 (0x5600374a5af0)
  15: cargo::ops::cargo_compile::compile::h57d9550ec550a472 (0x5600374a1db8)
  16: cargo::commands::build::exec::hc595c6a2b98b3047 (0x56003742b17d)
  17: cargo::cli::main::hbbce86d40638f2f0 (0x5600373f0c55)
  18: cargo::main::ha6397e0193ae2834 (0x56003740ee1f)
  19: std::rt::lang_start::{{closure}}::h783b28c4e06ed518 (0x560037404ca2)
  20: {{closure}} (0x560037be5812)
             at src/libstd/rt.rs:49
      do_call<closure,i32>
             at src/libstd/panicking.rs:297
  21: __rust_maybe_catch_panic (0x560037bf18f9)
             at src/libpanic_unwind/lib.rs:87
  22: try<i32,closure> (0x560037be63dc)
             at src/libstd/panicking.rs:276
      catch_unwind<closure,i32>
             at src/libstd/panic.rs:388
      lang_start_internal
             at src/libstd/rt.rs:48
  23: main (0x560037411441)
  24: __libc_start_main (0x7f6db17d8222)
  25: <unknown> (0x5600373e6028)), unknown: false, exit_code: 101 }
error: Permission denied (os error 13)

I've added anything that's chowned by root or any other user to the exclude package field in my Cargo.toml.

My ~/.cargo is all recursively chowned by me.

Not sure how to fix this now. The backtrace is a bit obscur.

This is using the rust 1.34 pre-release, but also on 1.33.

Edit: If I remove a folder chowned by root, this works fine. Even though the folder is in my exclude list.

[chanks]

I've run into this a couple of times. The chown method above didn't help, but cargo clean followed by a cargo build has fixed it. Next time I'll try building with sudo.

[joseluisq]

I've run into this a couple of times. The chown method above didn't help, but cargo clean followed by a cargo build has fixed it. Next time I'll try building with sudo.

@chanks answer worked for me. Thanks!

[zwobill]

I am running into this issue with VSCode Remote Try Rust. Cargo prints error: Permission denied (os error 13) I've tried way mentioned above. chown, cargo clean, didn't help. Now I don't know where it gets access denied. I think we could improve the error message by including a little bit more context.

[i-schuetz]

To me also nothing did work. I ran chown -R on my home directory, cargo clear, etc. So I've no idea what to do. Prepending RUST_LOG=debug RUST_BACKTRACE=1 to cargo build also isn't showing additional output.

[abcaptainDEV]

I was using VSCode aswell, running sudo cargo clean fixed it, now cargo build (no sudo) works fine.

[Groumph]

I just installed rustup and cargo through
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

The system in Ubuntu 20.04 in WSL 2.0.

Executing "cargo build" results in:

Compiling HelloWorld v0.1.0 (/mnt/d/Development/Rust/HelloWorld/HelloWorld)
warning: crate HelloWorld should have a snake case name
|
= note: #[warn(non_snake_case)] on by default
= help: convert the identifier to snake case: hello_world

error: could not exec the linker cc
|
= note: Permission denied (os error 13)
= note: "cc" "-Wl,--as-needed" "-Wl,-z,noexecstack" "-m64" "-L" "/home/nick/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib" "/mnt/d/Development/Rust/HelloWorld/HelloWorld/target/debug/deps/HelloWorld-d682f606e8563e0e.1el6wjpgj1dkfwf0.rcgu.o" "/mnt/d/Development/Rust/HelloWorld/HelloWorld/target/debug/deps/HelloWorld-d682f606e8563e0e.3962bg4u1ufd0i2o.rcgu.o" "/mnt/d/Development/Rust/HelloWorld/HelloWorld/target/debug/deps/HelloWorld-d682f606e8563e0e.3nay2hs8vzowo41p.rcgu.o" "/mnt/d/Development/Rust/HelloWorld/HelloWorld/target/debug/deps/HelloWorld-d682f606e8563e0e.3y5j67vbwdt6naio.rcgu.o" "/mnt/d/Development/Rust/HelloWorld/HelloWorld/target/debug/deps/HelloWorld-d682f606e8563e0e.523znc2qtgcslg12.rcgu.o" "/mnt/d/Development/Rust/HelloWorld/HelloWorld/target/debug/deps/HelloWorld-d682f606e8563e0e.s16bxban93wagks.rcgu.o" "-o" "/mnt/d/Development/Rust/HelloWorld/HelloWorld/target/debug/deps/HelloWorld-d682f606e8563e0e" "/mnt/d/Development/Rust/HelloWorld/HelloWorld/target/debug/deps/HelloWorld-d682f606e8563e0e.454le8qbyd52a29h.rcgu.o" "-Wl,--gc-sections" "-pie" "-Wl,-zrelro" "-Wl,-znow" "-nodefaultlibs" "-L" "/mnt/d/Development/Rust/HelloWorld/HelloWorld/target/debug/deps" "-L" "/home/nick/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib" "-Wl,--start-group" "-Wl,-Bstatic" "/home/nick/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libstd-c147cd9c030850ef.rlib" "/home/nick/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libpanic_unwind-7e62a3a07bb85bc1.rlib" "/home/nick/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libhashbrown-000f77165d4d2d36.rlib" "/home/nick/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/librustc_std_workspace_alloc-7dc0cb59ed386ac6.rlib" "/home/nick/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libbacktrace-9248bfbd7273ac3d.rlib" "/home/nick/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libbacktrace_sys-b75363fb938de39d.rlib" "/home/nick/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/librustc_demangle-7bbe96f555da4ad6.rlib" "/home/nick/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libunwind-a145493c64eeb044.rlib" "/home/nick/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libcfg_if-9577436fc6fce6bc.rlib" "/home/nick/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/liblibc-b3376c0a2b35415c.rlib" "/home/nick/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/liballoc-5708f6b2b59b6e0f.rlib" "/home/nick/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/librustc_std_workspace_core-e9fd09201d99d6f4.rlib" "/home/nick/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libcore-914c6ef6f5cf354a.rlib" "-Wl,--end-group" "/home/nick/.rustup/toolchains/stable-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/rustlib/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/lib/libcompiler_builtins-1445b6c7903692a2.rlib" "-Wl,-Bdynamic" "-ldl" "-lrt" "-lpthread" "-lgcc_s" "-lc" "-lm" "-lrt" "-lpthread" "-lutil" "-ldl" "-lutil"

error: aborting due to previous error; 1 warning emitted

error: could not compile HelloWorld.

To learn more, run the command again with --verbose.

[dchen327]

I'm having a similar issue: when using the rustup install command from the rust homepage curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh, I get these errors:

error: could not amend shell profile: '/home/dchen327/.bash_profile'
error: caused by: could not write rcfile file: '/home/dchen327/.bash_profile'
error: caused by: Permission denied (os error 13)

I'm running Pop! OS 20.04.

[Peter-L-SVK]

Running Fedora 32 after time, I've decided to come back after some time to play with Rust:

error: command failed: 'rustc'
error: caused by: Permission denied (os error 13)

EDIT: curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh helped

[rsweeney21]

I was able to fix this this issue on WSL 2.0 by running.

sudo apt install build-essential

The Linux Rust installer doesn't check for a compiler toolchain, but seems to assume that you've already got a C linker installed.

Hopefully this helps someone else in the future.

[JakePi3]

Also on WSL 2.0, the os error 13 doesn't seem to differentiate between being unable to write to a file, failing to execute due to permissions or a missing executable.

To fix my problems, build-essential wasn't enough, I also had to install clang and cmake through apt, though that probably doesn't affect everyone.

[Kambaa]

I'm having this problem on my WSL, installing build-essential, clang and cmake did not worked for me. Tried with sudo, that did not work too. Please advise.