Code-server: automatic update from 3.1.0 to 3.1.1 failed

[gregoryvanko]

Hello

• I receive just now a message to apply update to 3.1.1
• I click on apply
• I receive a message "updated to 3.1.1"
• a few minutes later, I receive the same message to apply update 3.1.1

After the "update to 3.1.1" message if I check my code-server version:
3.1.0 5aded14b87e017d32d080b686515f6a26be455f1

if a restart the sytemctl service for code-server the version is the same (3.1.0) and I continue to receive the message "apply update to 3.1.1"

could you help me?
@code-asher

Thank you

[Troubadoure]

I'm getting the same error trying to update mine.

[code-asher]

Hmm, I've been trying to replicate using the steps in https://github.com/cdr/code-server/issues/1513#issuecomment-613041017 (except I used 3.1.0 instead of 3.0.2) but it always works for me so far.

Do you see any output from code-server after applying the update? (If you're using systemd I imagine it'll be in the journal by default.)

According to that other issue you installed code-server in /var/www/code-server/ right? Do you see any other directories in there? It's supposed to rename the directory and then copy in the new files from the update so you should see something like code-server-3.1.0-linux-x86_64.1587056609700 which would be the old version.

[gregoryvanko]

thank you for the quick answer.
Hmm strange...
here is my complete config and installation:

My user is "gregoryweb" and my Home folder is "/var/www"
i create a folder "code-server" with "root" user in my Home directory

  gregoryweb@deb1:~$ ls -al
  -rw-------  1 gregoryweb gregoryweb 7278 avr 16 15:16 .bash_history
  drwxrwxrwx  4 gregoryweb gregoryweb 4096 avr  1 22:44 .cache
  drwxrwxrwx  4 root       root       4096 avr 15 23:35 code-server
  drwxrwxrwx  3 gregoryweb gregoryweb 4096 jan  3  2019 .config
  -rw-r--r--  1 gregoryweb gregoryweb   70 mar 21 14:10 .gitconfig
  -rw-------  1 gregoryweb gregoryweb   43 avr 15 23:46 .git-credentials
  drwxrwxrwx  3 root       root       4096 avr  2 21:08 .local
  drwxr-xr-x  6 gregoryweb gregoryweb 4096 avr 15 21:41 NodeJs
  drwxr-xr-x  6 gregoryweb gregoryweb 4096 avr 16 13:51 .npm
  -rw-------  1 gregoryweb gregoryweb   70 fév  3  2019 .npmrc
  drwx------  2 gregoryweb gregoryweb 4096 jan 28 20:10 .ssh
  -rw-r--r--  1 gregoryweb gregoryweb  376 avr  2 21:56 vscode_projects.json
  -rwxrwxrwx  1 gregoryweb gregoryweb  218 avr  2 20:52 .wget-hsts

I install "code-server 3-1-0" with "gregoryweb" user (download version and unzip) in "code-server" folder :

gregoryweb@deb1:~/code-server$ ls -al
total 16
drwxrwxrwx  4 root       root       4096 avr 15 23:35 .
drwxr-xr-x 15 gregoryweb gregoryweb 4096 avr 16 15:16 ..
drwxrwxrwx  7 gregoryweb gregoryweb 4096 avr  9 21:14 code-server-3.1.0-linux-x86_64
drwxr-xr-x  5 gregoryweb gregoryweb 4096 avr 15 23:51 code-server-data

here is the content of the folder "code-server-3.1.0-linux-x86_64":

gregoryweb@deb1:~/code-server/code-server-3.1.0-linux-x86_64$ ls -al
total 45056
drwxrwxrwx  7 gregoryweb gregoryweb     4096 avr  9 21:14 .
drwxrwxrwx  4 root       root           4096 avr 15 23:35 ..
-rwxrwxrwx  1 gregoryweb gregoryweb      189 avr  9 21:14 code-server
drwxrwxrwx  3 gregoryweb gregoryweb     4096 avr  9 21:13 dist
drwxrwxrwx  3 gregoryweb gregoryweb     4096 avr  9 21:12 lib
-rwxrwxrwx  1 gregoryweb gregoryweb     1084 avr  9 21:14 LICENSE.txt
-rwxrwxrwx  1 gregoryweb gregoryweb 45605784 avr  9 21:14 node
drwxrwxrwx 56 gregoryweb gregoryweb     4096 avr  9 21:14 node_modules
drwxrwxrwx  5 gregoryweb gregoryweb     4096 avr  9 21:13 out
-rwxrwxrwx  1 gregoryweb gregoryweb     2049 avr  9 21:14 package.json
-rwxrwxrwx  1 gregoryweb gregoryweb     1710 avr  9 21:14 README.md
drwxrwxrwx  5 gregoryweb gregoryweb     4096 avr  9 21:13 src
-rwxrwxrwx  1 gregoryweb gregoryweb   153148 avr  9 21:14 ThirdPartyNotices.txt
-rwxrwxrwx  1 gregoryweb gregoryweb   324598 avr  9 21:13 yarn.lock
gregoryweb@deb1:~/code-server/code-server-3.1.0-linux-x86_64$ 

I change the permissions to the code-server : chmod -R 777 ~/code-server
with the user "root" i create a "systemctl service file" : nano /lib/systemd/system/code-server.service

the content of this file is :

[Unit]
Description=code-server
After=nginx.service

[Service]
Type=simple
Environment=PASSWORD=xxx
ExecStart=/var/www/code-server/code-server-3.1.0-linux-x86_64/code-server --user-data-dir /var/www/code-server/code-server-data --auth password
Restart=always
User=gregoryweb

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

special attention to the path of "ExecStart" = /var/www/code-server/code-server-3.1.0-linux-x86_64/code-server
special attention to "User" = gregoryweb
(Maybe this path and this user are problems for update...???)

Finally I change the config in Nginx to make a reverse proxy:

server {

        #listen 80 default_server;
        #listen [::]:80 default_server;

        # SSL configuration
        #
        listen 443 ssl;
        listen [::]:443 ssl;
        ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/code.gregvanko.com/fullchain.pem;
        ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/code.gregvanko.com/privkey.pem;

        # Add index.php to the list if you are using PHP
        index index.html index.htm index.nginx-debian.html;

        server_name code.aaaaaaaaaaa.com;

        resolver 192.168.1.1;

        location / {
                set $target "http://localhost:8080";
                proxy_set_header Host $host;
                proxy_pass $target;
                proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
                proxy_set_header Connection upgrade;
                proxy_set_header Accept-Encoding gzip;
        }
        location ~ /\.ht {
                deny all;
        }
}

@code-asher where is my mistake?
Thank you very much for your help, I really appreciate to work with code-server

[gregoryvanko]

Hi,
solution found :-)
=> folder /tmp/code-server was not accessible by the code-server user (permission dined)... :-(
I changed the permission to the temp folder and after that code-server was able to update to 3.1.1

thank you

[code-asher]

Ahhhh, /tmp is where it downloads and extracts the update. I'm glad you figured it out! I'll make a fix so it properly gives a good error message when that happens.

[Troubadoure]

I'm still having getting 'update failed'. Have sudo chown -R coder:users /tmp The update seems to start running but ultimately failed. Are there any other directories that the update uses that might have the incorrect permissions?

[code-asher]

Are you updating from 3.1.0 or a different version?

[Troubadoure]

I'm not sure. I'm using a docker build and in Help -> About it shows:

Version: 1.43.2
Commit: e480f6527e11344a7c69b7cd024bce9379cea7f0
Date: 2020-04-01T23:37:57.354Z
Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_4) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/13.1 Safari/605.1.15

[code-asher]

In the Docker container code-server is installed in /usr/local/lib so the coder user would need permissions there.

3.0.2 has a bug where it'll say update failed even though the update succeeded, but it should ask you to refresh the window and after that if you run code-server --version in the terminal you should see 3.1.1.

[Troubadoure]

Can confirm ran sudo chown -R coder:users /usr/local/lib ran the update and after a little while got shown the 'Updated failed' message box then shortly after it asked me to refresh the page. Upon doing so ran code-server --version and was given 3.1.1. Thanks for the speedy response!