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Daniel TolenaarDanielTolenaar

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Posted 10mo ago

Submission Issue

Hello, my submissions are failing during the setup phase with a PermissionError from the pytket library. This appears to be an issue with the grading environment's file permissions, as pytket is trying to write to the non-writable /root/.config directory.
This crash happens when the platform's own use_case library is imported, before any of my own code is executed. It seems the Docker container for the grader needs to have a writable home directory or have the XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variable pointed to a writable location like /tmp.
Here is the full traceback from my latest submission:
Failed to setup the pipeline: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3.11/pathlib.py", line 1117, in mkdir
os.mkdir(self, mode)
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/root/.config/pytket'
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/tmp/.tmp6V2BWc/venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/use_case/init.py", line 1, in <module>
from .use_case import Input, Output
File "/tmp/.tmp6V2BWc/venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/use_case/use_case.py", line 4, in <module>
from use_case.quantum import QuantumChallenge
File "/tmp/.tmp6V2BWc/venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/use_case/quantum.py", line 4, in <module>
from pytket import Circuit
File "/tmp/.tmp6V2BWc/venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pytket/init.py", line 36, in <module>
config.write_file(pytket_config_file)
File "/tmp/.tmp6V2BWc/venv/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pytket/config/pytket_config.py", line 69, in write_file
config_file_path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
File "/usr/lib/python3.11/pathlib.py", line 1121, in mkdir
self.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
File "/usr/lib/python3.11/pathlib.py", line 1117, in mkdir
os.mkdir(self, mode)
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/root/.config'

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Antoine Chauvin

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Posted by antoine • 10mo ago

Hello @DanielTolenaar! We've deployed a patch, can you try again to upload your submission, and let us now how it goes please?

Daniel Tolenaar

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Posted by DanielTolenaar • 10mo ago

Hi Antoine, the patch seemed to have fixed it, our submission went through, thank you very much!

Jannes Stubbemann

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Posted by stubbi • 10mo ago

@julian or @antoine could you take a look, please?