error 13

[Nico]

Hi,

I am getting this error.  I definitely have urls in the file.  Seems to be a permission error.  Does anyone know how to fix it?

Thanks.

Opening cache...done.
Loading URLs from /home/ena/snap/newsboat/6828/.newsboat/urls...Failed to open file: Permission denied (os error 13)

Error: no URLs configured. Please fill the file /home/ena/snap/newsboat/6828/.newsboat/urls with RSS feed URLs or import an OPML file.

[Saku Laesvuori]

> I am getting this error. I definitely have urls in the file. Seems to be
> a permission error. Does anyone know how to fix it?
>

> Opening cache...done.
> Loading URLs from /home/ena/snap/newsboat/6828/.newsboat/urls...Failed to
> open file: Permission denied (os error 13)
>
> Error: no URLs configured. Please fill the file
> /home/ena/snap/newsboat/6828/.newsboat/urls with RSS feed URLs or import an
> OPML file.

Looks like the os user running newsboat doesn't have read permissions to
the urls file (or a directory in it's path). Normally you would fix that
with `chmod` and `chown`, but I'm not sure if snap does something funny
there (I assume you are using snap because the file is in a snap
directory).

[Nico]

Yes, got it from the snap store.  I verified the permissions are read and write for this user.

[Saku Laesvuori]

> Yes, got it from the snap store. I verified the permissions are read and
> write for this user.

Does the user also have execution permissions on the parent directories?

If that doesn't help, then the only idea I have left is that it's some
sort of a problem with snap sandboxing. I don't know anything about
troubleshooting snaps, so I can't help there. Maybe you could try
installing newsboat from a traditional package?

[Dennis van der Schagt]

Hi Nico,

I think I have seen a similar issue before where a Newsboat user ran into permission issues because of a symlink which pointed outside of the directories allowed by Snap.

Could you check if your urls file is a regular file, or if it is a symlink to outside `/home/ena/snap/newsboat/6828/`? (e.g. using `ls -l /home/ena/snap/newsboat/6828/.newsboat/urls` or `readlink -f /home/ena/snap/newsboat/6828/.newsboat/urls`)

[Nico]

Hi Dennis and Saku,

Thanks for your help.  I got it to work.  I installed with the command "sudo apt install newsboat" but still had the same issue.  Had to delete the urls file and recreate then it was no longer locked.

Thanks.