If one updates with sudo mw update
When trying to run mw version I get
panic: open /home/adam/.mwcli/.events: permission denied
goroutine 1 [running]:
gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/releng/cli/internal/util/files.AddLine(0xc0001806e0, 0xa5, 0xc00058b560, 0x19)
/builds/repos/releng/cli/internal/util/files/files.go:40 +0x1a6
gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/releng/cli/internal/eventlogging.AddEventToStore(0xc00007d500)
/builds/repos/releng/cli/internal/eventlogging/root.go:34 +0x107
gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/releng/cli/internal/eventlogging.AddCommandRunEvent(0xc000819743, 0x7, 0x1542288, 0x6)
/builds/repos/releng/cli/internal/eventlogging/root.go:21 +0x294
gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/releng/cli/cmd.NewMwCliCmd.func1(0xc000822c80, 0x1c60538, 0x0, 0x0)
/builds/repos/releng/cli/cmd/root.go:59 +0x12e
github.com/spf13/cobra.(*Command).execute(0xc000822c80, 0x1c60538, 0x0, 0x0, 0xc000822c80, 0x1c60538)
/go/pkg/mod/github.com/spf13/cobra@v1.3.0/command.go:840 +0x231
github.com/spf13/cobra.(*Command).ExecuteC(0xc000595400, 0x6, 0xc00058e790, 0x3)
/go/pkg/mod/github.com/spf13/cobra@v1.3.0/command.go:974 +0x375
github.com/spf13/cobra.(*Command).Execute(...)
/go/pkg/mod/github.com/spf13/cobra@v1.3.0/command.go:902
gitlab.wikimedia.org/repos/releng/cli/cmd.Execute(0x1543050, 0x7, 0x1542278, 0x4, 0x1542280, 0x5, 0x1543058, 0x7, 0x1546090, 0x14, ...)
/builds/repos/releng/cli/cmd/root.go:204 +0x377
main.main()
/builds/repos/releng/cli/main.go:29 +0xb5This is due to the fact that the .events file was created as root when the sudo was running.
We should avoid this.
If anyone comes across this then they need to sudo chown $(whoami):$(whoami) ~/.mwcli/.events