Failed to read lock file

[siddolo]

Describe the bug GUI doesn't start

Expected behavior GUI start

Logs

[2025-01-27T15:14:58Z INFO  gpapi::process::gui_helper_launcher] Launching gpgui-helper
[2025-01-27T15:14:58Z INFO  gpgui_helper::cli] gpgui-helper started: 2.4.3 (2025-01-20)
[2025-01-27T15:14:59Z INFO  gpgui_helper::updater] Update GUI, version: 2.4.3
[2025-01-27T15:14:59Z INFO  gpgui_helper::updater] Downloading file: https://github.com/yuezk/GlobalProtect-openconnect/releases/download/v2.4.3/gpgui_x86_64.bin.tar.xz
[2025-01-27T15:15:00Z INFO  gpgui_helper::downloader] Content length: 3258860
[2025-01-27T15:15:02Z INFO  gpgui_helper::downloader] Downloaded to: "/tmp/.tmp2kIzv6"
[2025-01-27T15:15:02Z INFO  gpgui_helper::updater] Checksum success
[2025-01-27T15:15:02Z WARN  gpgui_helper::updater] Install error: Failed to read lock file: Permission denied (os error 13)

Environment:

• OS: TUXEDO OS 2 (based on Ubuntu 22.04)
• Desktop Environment: KDE
• Is remote SSH? No

[yuezk]

Hi @siddolo can you see the lock file at /var/run/gpservice.lock and see its permission?

Alternatively, you can install it from the deb package: https://github.com/yuezk/GlobalProtect-openconnect#install-from-deb-package

[hal9000jw]

In my case, I discovered that this issue was related to a non-default umask setting for my user account...

$ umask
0027

This resulted in the following permissions for the /var/run/gpservice.lock file...

-rw-r----- 1 root root 12 Apr 1 11:30 gpservice.lock

Because the lock file was not world-readable, it resulted in the error recorded above and also the following error when launching the gpclient application...

GP service is not running

As a workaround, I installed incron and created the following incrontab rule as root to set the required permissions...

/var/run/ IN_CREATE,recursive=false /usr/bin/chmod o+r /var/run/gpservice.lock