Attempting to mount volume under /root ends up in /var/roothome

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ISSUE TYPE

• Bug Report

SUMMARY

Up to 24.3.2 I was able to mount a volume /home/user/.config:/root/.config. But starting from 24.6.0 the same config causes the mount to end up in /var/roothome, which breaks any apps that expect $HOME/.config (since $HOME still points to /root).

I have a faint feeling this has something to do with issue #1859.

ANSIBLE-NAVIGATOR VERSION

$ ansible-navigator --version
ansible-navigator 24.6.0

CONFIGURATION

ansible-navigator:
  logging:
    level: critical
  mode: stdout
  playbook-artifact:
    enable: false
  execution-environment:
    environment-variables:
      pass:
        # Bitwarden CLI session variable
        - BW_SESSION
    volume-mounts:
      # this way I can authenticate outside the container
      - src: "/home/user/.config/Bitwarden\ CLI"
        dest: "/root/.config/Bitwarden\ CLI"
        options: "Z"

LOG FILE

Before (24.3.2):

DEBUG 'ansible_navigator.main' Completed post processing for execution_environment_volume_mounts. (changed=True)
DEBUG 'ansible_navigator.main'  before: '[{'src': '/home/user/.config/Bitwarden CLI', 'dest': '/root/.config/Bitwarden CLI', 'options': 'Z'}]'
DEBUG 'ansible_navigator.main'  after: '['/home/user/.config/Bitwarden CLI:/root/.config/Bitwarden CLI:Z']'

After (24.6.0): NOTE: this is Bazzite, based on Fedora Universal Blue, so even the local home path is being interpreted diferently, as you can see in the debug.

DEBUG 'ansible_navigator.main' Completed post processing for execution_environment_volume_mounts. (changed=True)
DEBUG 'ansible_navigator.main'  before: '[{'src': '/home/user/.config/Bitwarden CLI', 'dest': '/root/.config/Bitwarden CLI', 'options': 'Z'}]'
DEBUG 'ansible_navigator.main'  after: '['/var/home/user/.config/Bitwarden CLI:/var/roothome/.config/Bitwarden CLI:Z']'

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

$ pip install ansible-navigator==24.6.0
$ ansible-navigator exec
bash-5.2# echo $HOME
/root
bash-5.2# ls -la /root/.config
ls: cannot access '/root/.config': No such file or directory
bash-5.2# ls -l /var/roothome/.config 
total 0
drwx------. 1 root root 18 Jun  1 00:36 'Bitwarden CLI'

EXPECTED RESULTS

$ pip install ansible-navigator==24.3.2
$ ansible-navigator exec
bash-5.2# echo $HOME
/root
bash-5.2# ls -l /root/.config
total 0
drwx------. 1 root root 18 Jun  1 00:36 'Bitwarden CLI'

ACTUAL RESULTS

$ pip install ansible-navigator==24.6.0
$ ansible-navigator exec
bash-5.2# echo $HOME
/root
bash-5.2# ls -la /root/.config
ls: cannot access '/root/.config': No such file or directory
bash-5.2# ls -l /var/roothome/.config 
total 0
drwx------. 1 root root 18 Jun  1 00:36 'Bitwarden CLI'

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION