Getting fuse: failed to open /dev/fuse: Permission denied error

[Walther]

Hi

I am running CentOS5.3.

When running the tests it keeps failing on test_chown
(t4_fuse.fuse_tests) with this error:
fuse: failed to open /dev/fuse: Permission denied

Output of: ls -la /dev/fuse
crwxrw-rw- 1 root fuse 10, 229 Feb 10 22:38 /dev/fuse

And my user is part of the fuse group (I am currently running in root
to install it).

Any ideas on how to solve this problem?

[Nikolaus Rath]

Could you try the fusexmp example filesystem that comes with fuse and
try if that works, so that we can isolate the problem?

Best,

-Nikolaus

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[Walther]

I get the same error.

Just a update, I'm running CentOS 5.4, not 5.3

[Nikolaus Rath]

On 02/11/2010 01:21 PM, Walther wrote:
>>> I am running CentOS5.3.
>>
>>> When running the tests it keeps failing on test_chown
>>> (t4_fuse.fuse_tests) with this error:
>>> fuse: failed to open /dev/fuse: Permission denied
>>
>>> Output of: ls -la /dev/fuse
>>> crwxrw-rw- 1 root fuse 10, 229 Feb 10 22:38 /dev/fuse
>>
>>> And my user is part of the fuse group (I am currently running in root
>>> to install it).
>>
>>> Any ideas on how to solve this problem?
>>
>> Could you try the fusexmp example filesystem that comes with fuse and
>> try if that works, so that we can isolate the problem?
>

> I get the same error.
>
> Just a update, I'm running CentOS 5.4, not 5.3

This seems to be a FUSE problem. I suggest to take this to the FUSE
mailing list, http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fuse-devel.
The people there should be able to sort this out much faster than I am,
and I'm reading there too.

[Walther]

Managed to fix it.

The problem was with the way that OpenVZ works (All VMs share the same
kernel/devices). Had to get my host to give my VM permissions to
access the /dev/fuse device.

On Feb 12, 12:10 am, Nikolaus Rath <Nikol...@rath.org> wrote:
> On 02/11/2010 01:21 PM, Walther wrote:
>
> >>> I am running CentOS5.3.
>
> >>> When running the tests it keeps failing on test_chown
> >>> (t4_fuse.fuse_tests) with this error:
> >>> fuse: failed to open /dev/fuse: Permission denied
>
> >>> Output of: ls -la /dev/fuse
> >>> crwxrw-rw- 1 root fuse 10, 229 Feb 10 22:38 /dev/fuse
>
> >>> And my user is part of the fuse group (I am currently running in root
> >>> to install it).
>
> >>> Any ideas on how to solve this problem?
>
> >> Could you try the fusexmp example filesystem that comes with fuse and
> >> try if that works, so that we can isolate the problem?
>
>  >
>  > I get the same error.
>  >
>  > Just a update, I'm running CentOS 5.4, not 5.3
>
> This seems to be a FUSE problem. I suggest to take this to the FUSE

> mailing list,http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fuse-devel.

[Nikolaus Rath]

Glad to hear that. I'll add an entry to the FAQ.