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Reported after a fresh install: installing an app from the Starlark tab
failed with "install failed: Failed to install from repository", and so did
uploading a .star file and installing from a GitHub directory. The reporter
found the cause only by reading service logs, and fixed it with
sudo chown -R ledpi:ledpi /home/ledpi/LEDMatrix/starlark-apps
starlark-apps is gitignored, so it is never checked out -- it is created
lazily by whichever process reaches it first. Those processes run as
different users. systemd/ledmatrix.service is User=root and constructs this
plugin at startup, which is where _get_apps_directory() is called from;
systemd/ledmatrix-web.service runs as the login user and is what actually
installs apps.
The documented first step is to install pixlet and reboot, so on a fresh
machine the display service usually wins that race and mkdir() leaves the
directory root-owned. The web process then fails in _install_star_file() on
app_dir.mkdir(), which catches nothing, so PermissionError reaches the
route's outer `except Exception` and becomes the generic message the user
saw. All three install paths write to the same directory, which is why all
three failed.
The web user cannot repair this -- chown needs root. So root does it, on
every startup, which also heals machines already broken by this without the
owner having to find the chown themselves. It is a no-op when not root, when
the platform has no POSIX ownership, and when the checkout genuinely belongs
to root; a chown that fails warns rather than killing startup.
Also made the failure legible if the handover is ever prevented: a
PermissionError now names the directory, the automatic repair, and the
manual chown, instead of a message that names neither path nor cause.
Verified by mutation: dropping the handover call, chowning a genuinely
root-owned checkout, and letting a non-root process chown each fail their
own test. 121 starlark tests pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014RRtqXDCnvnY6EQwhT5CV9