sqlite trying to access /var/tmp

[Jamie Strandboge]

On Tue, 2016-09-27 at 09:25 -0400, Michael Hall wrote:
> Set SQLITE_TMPDIR=/tmp and it should be happy.
> 
> TMPDIR isn't explicitly set in the snap's runtime environment, which is
> why sqlite falls back to /var/tmp
> 
> /tmp is mounted into your snap's runtime, and sqlite will try
> SQLITE_TMPDIR before TMPDIR, so setting that ensures that it won't
> impact anything other than sqlite.
> 

Hmmm, we used to export TMPDIR but it seems that it was dropped when moving to
snap reexec. Can you file a bug so that sqlite users don't have to worry about
SQLITE_TMPDIR unless they want to?

I think the bug is simply: 'please set TMPDIR=/tmp when launching snaps'

Thanks!

> 
> Michael Hall
> mhall119 at ubuntu.com
> 
> On 09/26/2016 08:15 PM, Leo Arias wrote:
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I'm trying to snap mapbox
> > studio: https://gist.github.com/elopio/d4e84e0d921151a68445a15d8dbc6ced
> > 
> > It's failing when I try to create a map because sqlite tries to write to
> > /var/tmp. According to [1], sqlite uses $TMPDIR before trying to use
> > /var/tmp, so this is weird.
> > 
> > Is anybody around with more sqlite knowledge who can help me?
> > 
> > pura vida.
> > 
> > [1] https://www.sqlite.org/tempfiles.html
> > 
> > -- 
> > ¡paz y baile!
> > http://www.ubuntu.com
> > 
> > 
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Jamie Strandboge             | http://www.canonical.com

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