Code-server: Permission issue, cannot start container

[mkono87]

Description

Used the example to create a docker-compose but im getting permisson errors and the container wont start.

  vscode:
    image: codercom/code-server
    container_name: vscode
    ports:
      - 8443:8443
    volumes:
      - /srv/docker/:/home/coder/project
    command: code-server --no-auth --disable-telemetry

ERROR { [Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/home/coder/project/code-server']


  [stack]:


   'Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir \'/home/coder/project/code-server\'',



  [message]:


   'EACCES: permission denied, mkdir \'/home/coder/project/code-server\'',


  errno: -13,


  code: 'EACCES',


  syscall: 'mkdir',


  path: '/home/coder/project/code-server' }

Related Issues

[deansheather]

What's the UID that owns /srv/docker on the host? The user in the container is UID 1000, and there's no translation to the UID on the host unfortunately.

[mkono87]

@deansheather That folder is owned by root. I was hoping this could have been a solution to editing my docker folders for various containers easily.

[BirkhoffLee]

Same issue here. Any workarounds?

[sr229]

Requesting further information. Failure to reply means it was fixed in your end and I'll close this automatically after 3 days.

[mkono87]

Requesting further information. Failure to reply means it was fixed in your end and I'll close this automatically after 3 days.

By this weekend il give it a shot again. I'm using a standard do ker setup on Ubuntu 18.04. I just wanted to have access to all appdata without having to 777 it all.

[finzzz]

temporary fix:

sudo chmod -R 777 /path/to/project
sudo chmod -R 777 /path/to/.local

[demyxco]

@mkono87 @BirkhoffLee @finzzz this is expected Docker behavior. The permission is denied because when you use bind mounts (/path/on/host:/path/in/container), Docker will create that directory on both sides if both directories don't exist on either host/container and since Docker itself runs as root, it will create it as root. Since the code-server image runs as a non-priv user (coder), it can't write to that root directory created by the bind mount, hence the "permission denied."

TL;DR the fix: sudo chown -R 1000:1000 /home/coder/project in the code-server terminal

Edit: Also creating the directory on the host (chown 1000:1000) beforehand also works.

[nhooyr]

See https://github.com/cdr/code-server/issues/1307