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Paul Beckett
Paul Beckett

Reputation: 53

Getting "AccessDeniedException" when I try to run a HelloWorld application in IntelliJ with WSL2

Trying to setup IntelliJ for use with wsl2 on win10 following jetbrains instructions here

When I build/run the project in IntelliJ I get the following exception:

java.nio.file.AccessDeniedException: /home/paul/.cache/JetBrains/IdeaIC2021.2/compile-server/helloworld_ddb4f9d0/timestamps
at java.base/sun.nio.fs.UnixException.translateToIOException(UnixException.java:90)
at java.base/sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:111)
at java.base/sun.nio.fs.UnixException.rethrowAsIOException(UnixException.java:116)
at java.base/sun.nio.fs.UnixFileSystemProvider.createDirectory(UnixFileSystemProvider.java:389)
at java.base/java.nio.file.Files.createDirectory(Files.java:690)
at java.base/java.nio.file.Files.createAndCheckIsDirectory(Files.java:797)
at java.base/java.nio.file.Files.createDirectories(Files.java:783)
at com.intellij.util.io.ResizeableMappedFile.ensureParentDirectoryExists(ResizeableMappedFile.java:175)
at com.intellij.util.io.ResizeableMappedFile.<init>(ResizeableMappedFile.java:67)
at com.intellij.util.io.PersistentBTreeEnumerator.<init>(PersistentBTreeEnumerator.java:73)
at com.intellij.util.io.PersistentEnumerator.createDefaultEnumerator(PersistentEnumerator.java:66)
at com.intellij.util.io.PersistentMapImpl.<init>(PersistentMapImpl.java:135)
at com.intellij.util.io.PersistentMapBuilder.buildImplementation(PersistentMapBuilder.java:64)
at com.intellij.util.io.PersistentMapBuilder.build(PersistentMapBuilder.java:41)
at com.intellij.util.io.PersistentHashMap.<init>(PersistentHashMap.java:39)
at com.intellij.util.io.PersistentHashMap.<init>(PersistentHashMap.java:54)
at org.jetbrains.jps.incremental.storage.AbstractStateStorage.createMap(AbstractStateStorage.java:124)
at org.jetbrains.jps.incremental.storage.AbstractStateStorage.<init>(AbstractStateStorage.java:29)
at org.jetbrains.jps.incremental.storage.FileTimestampStorage.<init>(FileTimestampStorage.java:27)
at org.jetbrains.jps.incremental.storage.ProjectStamps.<init>(ProjectStamps.java:41)
at org.jetbrains.jps.cmdline.BuildRunner.load(BuildRunner.java:98)
at org.jetbrains.jps.cmdline.BuildSession.runBuild(BuildSession.java:295)
at org.jetbrains.jps.cmdline.BuildSession.run(BuildSession.java:146)
at org.jetbrains.jps.cmdline.BuildMain$MyMessageHandler.lambda$channelRead0$0(BuildMain.java:218)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1128)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:628)
at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:829)

Tried with community versions of 2021.2 and 2021.2.1.

On the wsl2 environment IntelliJ is creating the project files and caches owned by root. Is that possibly related? Although it doesnt seem to have any problem read/write the src files.

Also raised it on youtrack here but I'm wondering if its a problem with my setup rather than a bug with IntelliJ. New to wsl2

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2075

Answers (2)

Siraj Alam
Siraj Alam

Reputation: 10055

For some reason the .cache/JetBrains directory is being created by the root user and group, just changing the ownership will fix the issue.

sudo chgrp -R paul /home/paul/.cache/JetBrains
sudo chown -R paul /home/paul/.cache/JetBrains

Upvotes: 0

Paul Beckett
Paul Beckett

Reputation: 53

See updates on the youtrack ticket.

Still unsure why IntelliJ initially created the structure as root but deleting the .cache directory and restarting IntelliJ caused all folders to then be created as my user fixing the problem for me.

Upvotes: 2

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