# "msm update" full of "permission denied"
**URL:** https://community.openconversational.ai/t/msm-update-full-of-permission-denied/3970
**Category:** Feedback / Support
**Tags:** support
**Created:** [June 14, 2018, 8:41pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/msm-update-full-of-permission-denied/3970 "2018-06-14T20:41:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@ubuntourist](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/ubuntourist)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2018, 8:41pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/msm-update-full-of-permission-denied/3970/1 "2018-06-14T20:41:29Z")
On an up-to-date (apt update / apt full-upgrade) Mark 1, lots, but not all, skills are “permission denied”… and an inability to lock a **`.git/config`** at the start of it alll:
```
$ sudo msm update
WARNING - Failed to update repo: GitException(Git command failed: GitCommandError(['git', 'config', 'remote.origin.url', 'https://github.com/MycroftAI/mycroft-skills'], 255, b'error: could not lock config file .git/config: Permission denied', b''))
ERROR - Error running update_skill on mycroft-stop: GitException(Git command failed: GitCommandError(['git', 'fetch'], 1, b'error: Unable to append to .git/logs/refs/remotes/origin/18.02: Permission denied\nFrom https://github.com/MycroftAI/skill-stop\n ! e9f01e8..9bfc249 18.02 -> origin/18.02 (unable to update local ref)', b''))
ERROR - Error running update_skill on mycroft-support-helper: GitException(Git command failed: GitCommandError(['git', 'fetch'], 1, b'error: Unable to append to .git/logs/refs/remotes/origin/18.02: Permission denied\nFrom https://github.com/MycroftAI/skill-support\n ! e497b70..5919493 18.02 -> origin/18.02 (unable to update local ref)', b''))
ERROR - Error running update_skill on mycroft-wiki: GitException(Git command failed: GitCommandError(['git', 'fetch'], 1, b'error: Unable to append to .git/logs/refs/remotes/origin/18.02: Permission denied\nFrom https://github.com/MycroftAI/skill-wiki\n ! 16bc57c..9894835 18.02 -> origin/18.02 (unable to update local ref)', b''))
ERROR - Error running update_skill on mycroft-version-checker: GitException(Git command failed: GitCommandError(['git', 'fetch'], 128, b'error: insufficient permission for adding an object to repository database .git/objects\nfatal: failed to write object\nfatal: unpack-objects failed', b''))
ERROR - Error running update_skill on mycroft-reminder: GitException(Git command failed: GitCommandError(['git', 'fetch'], 1, b'error: Unable to append to .git/logs/refs/remotes/origin/18.02: Permission denied\nFrom https://github.com/MycroftAI/skill-reminder\n ! e819948..7623a2e 18.02 -> origin/18.02 (unable to update local ref)', b''))
ERROR - Error running update_skill on mycroft-volume: GitException(Git command failed: GitCommandError(['git', 'fetch'], 1, b'error: Unable to append to .git/logs/refs/remotes/origin/18.02: Permission denied\nFrom https://github.com/MycroftAI/skill-volume\n ! a76f94b..d14142c 18.02 -> origin/18.02 (unable to update local ref)', b''))
ERROR - Error running update_skill on mycroft-audio-record: GitException(Git command failed: GitCommandError(['git', 'fetch'], 1, b'error: Unable to append to .git/logs/refs/remotes/origin/18.02: Permission denied\nFrom https://github.com/MycroftAI/skill-audio-record\n ! fe59be8..9479337 18.02 -> origin/18.02 (unable to update local ref)', b''))
ERROR - Error running update_skill on fallback-aiml: GitException(Git command failed: GitCommandError(['git', 'fetch'], 128, b'error: insufficient permission for adding an object to repository database .git/objects\nfatal: failed to write object\nfatal: unpack-objects failed', b''))
ERROR - Error running update_skill on mycroft-npr-news: GitException(Git command failed: GitCommandError(['git', 'fetch'], 1, b'error: Unable to append to .git/logs/refs/remotes/origin/18.02: Permission denied\nFrom https://github.com/MycroftAI/skill-npr-news\n ! c256291..688c9e4 18.02 -> origin/18.02 (unable to update local ref)', b''))
INFO - Nothing new for skill-wolfram-alpha
ERROR - Error running update_skill on mycroft-mark-1: GitException(Git command failed: GitCommandError(['git', 'fetch'], 128, b'error: insufficient permission for adding an object to repository database .git/objects\nfatal: failed to write object\nfatal: unpack-objects failed', b''))
INFO - Nothing new for mycroft-speak
ERROR - Error running update_skill on mycroft-date-time: GitException(Git command failed: GitCommandError(['git', 'fetch'], 1, b'error: Unable to append to .git/logs/refs/remotes/origin/18.02: Permission denied\nFrom https://github.com/MycroftAI/skill-date-time\n ! 3aa3432..2db18ef 18.02 -> origin/18.02 (unable to update local ref)', b''))
ERROR - Error running update_skill on mycroft-configuration: GitException(Git command failed: GitCommandError(['git', 'fetch'], 128, b'error: insufficient permission for adding an object to repository database .git/objects\nfatal: failed to write object\nfatal: unpack-objects failed', b''))
ERROR - Error running update_skill on mycroft-installer: GitException(Git command failed: GitCommandError(['git', 'fetch'], 128, b'error: insufficient permission for adding an object to repository database .git/objects\nfatal: failed to write object\nfatal: unpack-objects failed', b''))
ERROR - Error running update_skill on mycroft-spelling: GitException(Git command failed: GitCommandError(['git', 'fetch'], 1, b'error: Unable to append to .git/logs/refs/remotes/origin/18.02: Permission denied\nFrom https://github.com/MycroftAI/skill-spelling\n ! af77319..9a50d41 18.02 -> origin/18.02 (unable to update local ref)', b''))
ERROR - Error running update_skill on mycroft-naptime: GitException(Git command failed: GitCommandError(['git', 'fetch'], 1, b'error: Unable to append to .git/logs/refs/remotes/origin/18.02: Permission denied\nFrom https://github.com/MycroftAI/skill-naptime\n ! e81ffdd..a294e41 18.02 -> origin/18.02 (unable to update local ref)', b''))
ERROR - Error running update_skill on mycroft-stock: GitException(Git command failed: GitCommandError(['git', 'fetch'], 1, b'error: Unable to append to .git/logs/refs/remotes/origin/18.02: Permission denied\nFrom https://github.com/MycroftAI/skill-stock\n ! 751e075..0be3769 18.02 -> origin/18.02 (unable to update local ref)', b''))
INFO - Nothing new for skill-media
ERROR - Error running update_skill on mycroft-fallback-duck-duck-go: GitException(Git command failed: GitCommandError(['git', 'fetch'], 128, b'error: insufficient permission for adding an object to repository database .git/objects\nfatal: failed to write object\nfatal: unpack-objects failed', b''))
ERROR - Error running update_skill on mycroft-spotify: GitException(Git command failed: GitCommandError(['git', 'fetch'], 128, b'error: insufficient permission for adding an object to repository database .git/objects\nfatal: failed to write object\nfatal: unpack-objects failed', b''))
INFO - Nothing new for mycroft-playback-control
INFO - Nothing new for mycroft-timer
INFO - Nothing new for mycroft-joke
ERROR - Error running update_skill on mycroft-alarm: GitException(Git command failed: GitCommandError(['git', 'fetch'], 1, b'error: Unable to append to .git/logs/refs/remotes/origin/18.02: Permission denied\nFrom https://github.com/MycroftAI/skill-alarm\n ! 16e717d..48b9f65 18.02 -> origin/18.02 (unable to update local ref)', b''))
INFO - Nothing new for mycroft-singing
INFO - Nothing new for mycroft-mark-1-demo
INFO - Nothing new for skill-desktop-launcher
INFO - Nothing new for mycroft-ip
INFO - Nothing new for mycroft-pairing
INFO - Nothing new for mycroft-weather
INFO - Nothing new for fallback-wolfram-alpha
INFO - Nothing new for fallback-unknown
INFO - Nothing new for pandora-skill
INFO - Nothing new for mycroft-hello-world
INFO - Nothing new for mycroft-personal
```
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### Author:  [@LucasAmos](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/LucasAmos)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2018, 10:32pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/msm-update-full-of-permission-denied/3970/2 "2018-06-14T22:32:34Z")
I think you need to run this as sudo?
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### Author:  [@baconator](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/baconator)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2018, 4:45am UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/msm-update-full-of-permission-denied/3970/3 "2018-06-15T04:45:39Z")
You shouldn’t run it sudo’d. Looks like that might have been the case at some point previously, and now it no longer has permissions to update as the mycroft user.
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### Author:  [@KathyReid](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/KathyReid)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2018, 10:52am UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/msm-update-full-of-permission-denied/3970/4 "2018-06-15T10:52:53Z")
I think @baconator is correct. @ubuntourist - are you able to provide an `ls -las` of `/opt/mycrof/skills` so we can see filesystem permissions?
Best, Kathy
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### Author:  [@ubuntourist](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/ubuntourist)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2018, 5:10pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/msm-update-full-of-permission-denied/3970/5 "2018-06-15T17:10:37Z")
Everything at the top level is owned by user “mycroft” and has reasonable permissions. However… see the bottom of this message.
```
total 152
4 drwxrwxrwx 38 mycroft mycroft 4096 Jun 14 18:38 .
4 drwxr-xr-x 6 mycroft mycroft 4096 Jun 14 18:37 ..
4 drwxr-xr-x 5 mycroft mycroft 4096 May 31 14:05 fallback-aiml
4 drwxr-xr-x 4 mycroft mycroft 4096 May 31 14:05 fallback-duckduckgo
4 drwxr-xr-x 6 mycroft mycroft 4096 May 31 14:05 fallback-unknown
4 drwxr-xr-x 8 mycroft mycroft 4096 May 31 14:05 fallback-wolfram-alpha
0 -rw-r--r-- 1 mycroft mycroft 0 Jun 15 16:58 .msm
4 drwxr-xr-x 6 mycroft mycroft 4096 May 31 14:05 mycroft-mark-1
4 drwxr-xr-x 6 mycroft mycroft 4096 May 31 14:05 mycroft-timer
4 drwxr-xr-x 6 mycroft mycroft 4096 May 31 14:05 pianobar-skill
4 drwxr-xr-x 7 mycroft mycroft 4096 May 31 14:05 skill-alarm
4 drwxr-xr-x 7 mycroft mycroft 4096 May 31 14:05 skill-audio-record
4 drwxr-xr-x 7 mycroft mycroft 4096 May 31 14:05 skill-configuration
4 drwxr-xr-x 8 mycroft mycroft 4096 May 31 14:05 skill-date-time
4 drwxr-xr-x 7 mycroft mycroft 4096 May 31 14:05 skill-desktop-launcher
4 drwxr-xr-x 7 mycroft mycroft 4096 May 31 14:05 skill-hello-world
4 drwxr-xr-x 7 mycroft mycroft 4096 May 31 14:05 skill-installer
4 drwxr-xr-x 7 mycroft mycroft 4096 May 31 14:05 skill-ip
4 drwxr-xr-x 6 mycroft mycroft 4096 May 31 14:05 skill-joke
4 drwxr-xr-x 4 mycroft mycroft 4096 May 31 14:05 skill-mark1-demo
4 drwxr-xr-x 4 mycroft mycroft 4096 Aug 1 2017 skill-media
4 drwxr-xr-x 7 mycroft mycroft 4096 May 31 14:05 skill-naptime
4 drwxr-xr-x 7 mycroft mycroft 4096 May 31 14:05 skill-npr-news
4 drwxr-xr-x 7 mycroft mycroft 4096 May 31 13:59 skill-pairing
4 drwxr-xr-x 7 mycroft mycroft 4096 May 31 14:05 skill-personal
4 drwxr-xr-x 6 mycroft mycroft 4096 May 31 14:05 skill-playback-control
4 drwxr-xr-x 7 mycroft mycroft 4096 May 31 14:05 skill-reminder
4 drwxr-xr-x 7 mycroft mycroft 4096 May 31 14:05 skill-singing
4 drwxr-xr-x 7 mycroft mycroft 4096 May 31 14:05 skill-speak
4 drwxr-xr-x 7 mycroft mycroft 4096 May 31 14:05 skill-spelling
4 drwxr-xr-x 8 mycroft mycroft 4096 May 31 14:05 skill-stock
4 drwxr-xr-x 6 mycroft mycroft 4096 May 31 14:05 skill-stop
4 drwxr-xr-x 7 mycroft mycroft 4096 May 31 14:05 skill-support
4 drwxr-xr-x 6 mycroft mycroft 4096 May 31 14:05 skill-version-checker
4 drwxr-xr-x 8 mycroft mycroft 4096 May 31 13:59 skill-volume
4 drwxr-xr-x 8 mycroft mycroft 4096 May 31 14:05 skill-weather
4 drwxr-xr-x 8 mycroft mycroft 4096 May 31 14:05 skill-wiki
4 drwxr-xr-x 5 mycroft mycroft 4096 Jan 2 23:08 skill-wolfram-alpha
4 drwxr-xr-x 8 mycroft mycroft 4096 May 31 14:05 spotify-skill
```
Drilling further down with **`ls -AlR /opt/mycroft/skills`** shows _some_ files owned by root, deep in the bowels of various **`/.git/`** directories…
Since we have two votes for “Don’t use sudo”, I’ve set the ownership of everything in the tree to **`mycroft`** and will see where that leads me.
---
### Author:  [@ubuntourist](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/ubuntourist)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2018, 5:17pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/msm-update-full-of-permission-denied/3970/6 "2018-06-15T17:17:33Z")
That (the change of ownership) vastly improved things. I’m now down to a single error:
```
$ msm update
WARNING - Failed to update repo: GitException(Git command failed: GitCommandError(['git', 'config', 'remote.origin.url', 'https://github.com/MycroftAI/mycroft-skills'], 255, b'error: could not lock config file .git/config: Permission denied', b''))
```
followed by a bunch of INFO lines telling me most stuff is up-to-date with nothing new. ( **`fallback-aiml`** had an update – a new **`requirements.txt`** file – that updated without incident.)
Mayhaps the ownership of **`/opt/mycroft/.skills-repo`** is off?
How much of **`/opt/mycroft`** should **`mycroft`** own?
---
### Author:  [@baconator](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/baconator)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2018, 6:52pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/msm-update-full-of-permission-denied/3970/7 "2018-06-15T18:52:48Z")
Mycroft should own all of it.
---
### Author:  [@Wallylama](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/Wallylama)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2018, 11:21pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/msm-update-full-of-permission-denied/3970/8 "2018-06-15T23:21:52Z")
> [@baconator](#):
>
> Mycroft should own all of it.
This should really be in the post about the effect ai will have on society.
---
### Author:  [@Its.sean](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/Its.sean)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2021, 7:20pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/msm-update-full-of-permission-denied/3970/9 "2021-09-03T19:20:36Z")
How do I fix this? I can use msm install, but then am denied. So I try sudo msm but then it says command not found when adding sudo
---
### Author:  [@gez-mycroft](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/gez-mycroft)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2021, 7:02am UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/msm-update-full-of-permission-denied/3970/10 "2021-09-10T07:02:03Z")
Hey Sean,
Can you check the file permissions on your Skills directory at: `/opt/mycroft/skills`
These need to be writable by the user running Mycroft. To change the permissions of all files in a directory and it’s subdirectory you can use `chown` with the `-R` flag, eg:
```auto
chown -R user:group /opt/mycroft/skills
```