[Docker] - Rasa init error

Rasa version: Latest (1.4.1) - See on Docker Hub

Docker & docker-compose versions: Docker version 19.03.4, build 9013bf583a docker-compose version 1.24.1, build 4667896b

Operating system (windows, osx, …): Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS

Issue: With a brand new installation of Docker, dating from the day, it is impossible to launch rasa commands (init, train_nlu, …) via Docker as described in the docs.

I tried with an empty current directory and a non-empty current directory (where volume is mounted) : the result is the same, leading to the error below.

I am connected as root, so the problem is not due to rights or anything else (about ten other diverse containers are currently working without any problem on the same machine)

Note: I have never encountered this problem with previous versions of the rasa:latest and rasa_latest-full images.

Error (including full traceback):

root@xyz:/path/to/my/project# docker run -v $(pwd):/app rasa/rasa:latest init --no-prompt
Unable to find image 'rasa/rasa:latest' locally
latest: Pulling from rasa/rasa
[...]
Status: Downloaded newer image for rasa/rasa:latest
Warning: Output is not to a terminal (fd=1).
Warning: Input is not to a terminal (fd=0).
Welcome to Rasa! 🤖

To get started quickly, an initial project will be created.
If you need some help, check out the documentation at https://rasa.com/docs/rasa.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/distutils/dir_util.py", line 70, in mkpath
    os.mkdir(head, mode)
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '__pycache__'

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/build/bin/rasa", line 11, in <module>
    load_entry_point('rasa==1.5.0a1', 'console_scripts', 'rasa')()
  File "/build/lib/python3.6/site-packages/rasa/__main__.py", line 76, in main
    cmdline_arguments.func(cmdline_arguments)
  File "/build/lib/python3.6/site-packages/rasa/cli/scaffold.py", line 195, in run
    init_project(args, path)
  File "/build/lib/python3.6/site-packages/rasa/cli/scaffold.py", line 111, in init_project
    create_initial_project(path)
  File "/build/lib/python3.6/site-packages/rasa/cli/scaffold.py", line 119, in create_initial_project
    copy_tree(scaffold_path(), path)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/distutils/dir_util.py", line 159, in copy_tree
    verbose=verbose, dry_run=dry_run))
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/distutils/dir_util.py", line 135, in copy_tree
    mkpath(dst, verbose=verbose)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/distutils/dir_util.py", line 74, in mkpath
    "could not create '%s': %s" % (head, exc.args[-1]))
distutils.errors.DistutilsFileError: could not create '__pycache__': Permission denied

Command or request that led to error:

docker run -v $(pwd):/app rasa/rasa:latest init --no-prompt

or

docker run -v $(pwd):/app rasa/rasa:latest-full init --no-prompt

Thanks in advance and best regards TBX

[eprabhakar]

Thanks to @AndiLeni for posting the link of the rasa forum where the issue is posted, and @ArjaanBuijk for giving a simple solution in the forum, that worked excellent for me. I am just posting it here for the convenience,

> Solution by @ArjaanBuijk 

This is how it looks for me, on Ubuntu 18.04, when I am inside the folder
 where I will install the mood-bot:

$ stat .
  File: .
  Size: 4096      	Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   directory
Device: 801h/2049d	Inode: 5119770     Links: 2
Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x)  Uid: ( 1000/  arjaan)   Gid: ( 1000/  arjaan)
Access: 2019-12-24 10:10:38.261990864 -0500
Modify: 2019-12-24 10:03:55.915369626 -0500
Change: 2019-12-24 10:03:55.915369626 -0500
 Birth: -

As you can see, access rights for the folder are for uid=1000.

So, running docker container as the user with uid=1000 will work:

$ sudo docker run --user 1000 -v $(pwd):/app rasa/rasa init --no-prompt

[CaptXiong]

cd your_dir stat . checke the uid permission of the dir. if you dont have permission,then mkdir, do as the tutorial