ERROR: Could not install packages due to an OSError: [Errno 39] Directory not empty

Question

Dockerfile:

FROM python:3.10-slim

ENV PYTHONUNBUFFERED 1

WORKDIR /app
COPY ./requirements.txt .

RUN pip install --trusted-host mirrors.aliyun.com --no-cache-dir --upgrade -r requirements.txt

Error during build:

  Attempting uninstall: setuptools
    Found existing installation: setuptools 65.5.0
    Uninstalling setuptools-65.5.0:
ERROR: Could not install packages due to an OSError: [Errno 39] Directory not empty: '/usr/local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/_distutils_hack/'

It seems a permission error while deleting a folder. As root is the default user in Docker, I don't understand why lack of permission.

Answer 1

Without knowing the contents of your requirements.txt file it's not possible to say with certainty but my guess is that you included setuptools which is already in the python standard library. Remove this line and it should work

If this isn't the case, add your requirements.txt file contents so that the error is reproducible ( docker build with an empty file doesn't throw errors)

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OSError has a number of root causes but error number 39 states

 39: 'Destination address required',

found via

import os
import errno
from pprint import pprint

pprint( {i:os.strerror(i) for i in sorted(errno.errorcode)})

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