Permission denied

Hi!

I am experiencing this problem with a GitHub folder, I’ve used till two weeks ago. For some reasons, I cannot get updates. I tried to remove it and clone again but it does not work. The log files is reported below:

(The error was parsed as 3: Authentication failed. Some common reasons include:

• You are not logged in to your account: see GitHub Desktop > Preferences.
• You may need to log out and log back in to refresh your token.
• You do not have permission to access this repository.
• The repository is archived on GitHub. Check the repository settings to confirm you are still permitted to push commits.
• If you use SSH authentication, check that your key is added to the ssh-agent and associated with your account.) 2020-03-16T18:09:24.167Z - info: [ui] Current tutorial step is NotApplicable 2020-03-16T18:09:24.173Z - info: [ui] Background fetch for 3 repositories took 3.216sec 2020-03-16T18:09:49.553Z - info: [ui] Current tutorial step is NotApplicable 2020-03-16T18:11:25.926Z - info: [ui] Current tutorial step is NotApplicable 2020-03-16T18:11:30.746Z - info: [ui] Current tutorial step is NotApplicable 2020-03-16T18:11:41.572Z - info: [ui] Current tutorial step is NotApplicable 2020-03-16T18:23:05.551Z - info: [ui] Current tutorial step is NotApplicable 2020-03-16T18:23:27.193Z - info: [ui] Current tutorial step is NotApplicable 2020-03-16T18:23:29.128Z - info: [ui] [AppStore.getAccountForRemoteURL] found generic credentials for ‘gitlab.liu.se’ and ‘[e-mail]’ 2020-03-16T18:23:29.157Z - error: [ui] git -c credential.helper= clone --recursive --progress -- https://gitlab.liu.se/ozlde25/cell-free-book.git /cell-free-book exited with an unexpected code: 128. stderr: fatal: could not create work tree dir ‘/cell-free-book’: Permission denied

(The error was parsed as 21: Permission denied.)

I’ve spent all day to figure out the issue, but I could not find any solution.

I am using MacBook Pro with macOS Mojave version 10.14.6 and GitHub desktop version 2.3.1.

Thank you very much in advance.

[steveward]

@lucasanguinetti the fatal: could not create work tree dir '/cell-free-book': Permission denied indicates that Git can’t write to the location where you are trying to clone. It looks like you are cloning to /, which would cause that error since it’s read-only. Try cloning to your user directory to see if that succeeds.

[steveward]

I’m glad to hear things are working for you now!