Permission denied @ dir_s_mkdir - /run/user/gui/spring (Errno::EACCES)

Question

I am having this issue while opening -> rails console

[chitra@localhost todo_app]$ rails c
/home/chitra/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.2.0/lib/ruby/2.2.0/fileutils.rb:252:in `mkdir': Permission denied @ dir_s_mkdir - /run/user/gui/spring (Errno::EACCES)
    from /home/chitra/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.2.0/lib/ruby/2.2.0/fileutils.rb:252:in `fu_mkdir'
    from /home/chitra/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.2.0/lib/ruby/2.2.0/fileutils.rb:226:in `block (2 levels) in mkdir_p'
    from /home/chitra/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.2.0/lib/ruby/2.2.0/fileutils.rb:224:in `reverse_each'
    from /home/chitra/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.2.0/lib/ruby/2.2.0/fileutils.rb:224:in `block in mkdir_p'
    from /home/chitra/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.2.0/lib/ruby/2.2.0/fileutils.rb:210:in `each'
    from /home/chitra/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.2.0/lib/ruby/2.2.0/fileutils.rb:210:in `mkdir_p'
    from /home/chitra/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.0@todo/gems/spring-1.4.0/lib/spring/env.rb:37:in `tmp_path'
    from /home/chitra/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.0@todo/gems/spring-1.4.0/lib/spring/env.rb:54:in `pidfile_path'
    from /home/chitra/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.0@todo/gems/spring-1.4.0/lib/spring/env.rb:69:in `server_running?'
    from /home/chitra/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.0@todo/gems/spring-1.4.0/lib/spring/client/run.rb:25:in `call'
    from /home/chitra/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.0@todo/gems/spring-1.4.0/lib/spring/client/command.rb:7:in `call'
    from /home/chitra/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.0@todo/gems/spring-1.4.0/lib/spring/client/rails.rb:24:in `call'
    from /home/chitra/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.0@todo/gems/spring-1.4.0/lib/spring/client/command.rb:7:in `call'
    from /home/chitra/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.0@todo/gems/spring-1.4.0/lib/spring/client.rb:28:in `run'
    from /home/chitra/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.0@todo/gems/spring-1.4.0/bin/spring:49:in `<top (required)>'
    from /home/chitra/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.0@todo/gems/spring-1.4.0/lib/spring/binstub.rb:11:in `load'
    from /home/chitra/.rvm/gems/ruby-2.2.0@todo/gems/spring-1.4.0/lib/spring/binstub.rb:11:in `<top (required)>'
    from /opt/projects/todo_app/bin/spring:13:in `require'
    from /opt/projects/todo_app/bin/spring:13:in `<top (required)>'
    from bin/rails:3:in `load'
    from bin/rails:3:in `<main>'

I am using ruby version 2.2.0p0 and rails 4.2. Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Here is the code that's throwing the error:

# File 'lib/spring/env.rb', line 35

def tmp_path
  path = Pathname.new(File.join(ENV['XDG_RUNTIME_DIR'] || Dir.tmpdir, "spring"))
  FileUtils.mkdir_p(path) unless path.exist?
  path
end

Looks like you have XDG_RUNTIME_DIR set to /run/user/gui/ but the server doesn't have write access to that directory. So you can either grant access to that directory, or unset XDG_RUNTIME_DIR by typing unset XDG_RUNTIME_DIR