phabricator hosted repositories not created - permission denied

[sheershoff]

Initialization Error
Pull of "DC" failed: Command failed with error #128! COMMAND git init --bare -- '/var/repo/DC' STDOUT (empty) STDERR fatal: cannot mkdir /var/repo/DC: Permission denied

4dda92483808:~ # ls -lia /var/repo
total 8
130770 drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Jun  7 12:45 .
    15 drwxr-xr-x 91 root root 4096 Jun  7 12:34 ..

4dda92483808:~ # ps auxw|grep Reposit
git        684  0.2  3.1 149232 32740 ?        Ss   12:34   0:02 php /srv/phabricator/libphutil/scripts/daemon/exec/exec_daemon.php PhabricatorRepositoryPullLocalDaemon

Not sure where one should correct the permissions. If I manually do git init --bare '/var/repo/DC' it then says it can't write to .git/hooks. What should I do? I'm new to docker.

[hach-que]

You need to have the repo storage mapped to somewhere outside the Docker instance, otherwise you'll lose your repos next time the Docker image starts.

If /var/repo is mapped, then check the permissions on the folder it is mapped to. It will need to have the same ownership and group as the UID / GID of the user inside the Docker container which means a UID / GID of 2000 / 2000.

You should be able to set the ownership of the folder outside the container with something like chown 2000:2000 /path/to/repo.

[hach-que]

Closing this as there has been no response.

[sheershoff]

Thank you, this worked.

[yashvekaria]

Thank you @hach-que , it worked for me as well.