Hello,
I am trying to running Rasa by following the instructions provided in Using Docker | Rasa Documentation. Unfortunately, I am getting the error shown below. Has anyone else encountered this problem?
I am currently using Ubuntu 24.04.2.
local@local-ThinkPad-P51:~$ docker run -v ~/Documents/rasa-demo2:/app
-e RASA_PRO_LICENSE=${RASA_PRO_LICENSE}
rasa/rasa-pro:3.12.6
init --no-prompt --template tutorial
Matplotlib created a temporary cache directory at /tmp/matplotlib-hbd8k565 because the default
path (/app/.config/matplotlib) is not a writable directory; it is highly recommended to set the
MPLCONFIGDIR environment variable to a writable directory, in particular to speed up the
import of Matplotlib and to better support multiprocessing.
2025-05-08 15:55:02 WARNING rasa.utils.common - Failed to write global config. Error: [Errno
13] Permission denied: '/app/.config'. Skipping.
2025-05-08 15:55:02 WARNING rasa.utils.common - Failed to write global config. Error: [Errno
13] Permission denied: '/app/.config'. Skipping.
Warning: Input is not a terminal (fd=0).
2025-05-08 15:55:03 INFO root - creating actions
2025-05-08 15:55:03 ERROR rasa.__main__ - {"event_info": "DistutilsFileError: could not
create 'actions': Permission denied", "event": "cli.exception.general_exception", "level": "error",
"exception": [{"exc_type": "DistutilsFileError", "exc_value": "could not create 'actions': Permission
denied", "syntax_error": null, "is_cause": false, "frames": [{"filename":
"/opt/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/rasa/__main__.py", "lineno": 148, "name": "main", "line":
"", "locals": {"raw_arguments": "None", "arg_parser": "'ArgumentParser(prog=\\'rasa\\',
usage=None, description=\"Rasa command line interface'+294", "cmdline_arguments":
"'Namespace(loglevel=None, logging_config_file=None, no_prompt=True, init_dir=None'+93",
"log_level": "None", "logging_config_file": "None", "is_studio_command": "False", "result": "[]",
"endpoints_file": "None", "exc": "DistutilsFileError(\"could not create 'actions': Permission
denied\")"}}, {"filename": "/opt/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/rasa/cli/scaffold.py", "lineno":
273, "name": "run", "line": "", "locals": {"args": "'Namespace(loglevel=None,
logging_config_file=None, no_prompt=True, init_dir=None'+93", "questionary": "\"<module
'questionary' from '/opt/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/questionary/_\"+12", "path": "."}},
{"filename": "/opt/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/rasa/cli/scaffold.py", "lineno": 154, "name":
"init_project", "line": "", "locals": {"args": "'Namespace(loglevel=None, logging_config_file=None,
no_prompt=True, init_dir=None'+93", "path": "."}}, {"filename": "/opt/venv/lib/python3.10/site-
packages/rasa/cli/scaffold.py", "lineno": 165, "name": "create_initial_project", "line": "", "locals":
{"path": ".", "template": "<ProjectTemplateName.TUTORIAL: 'tutorial'>", "copy_tree": "<function
copy_tree at 0x7ac20b13d3f0>"}}, {"filename": "/opt/venv/lib/python3.10/site-
packages/setuptools/_distutils/dir_util.py", "lineno": 168, "name": "copy_tree", "line": "", "locals":
{"src": "/opt/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/rasa/cli/project_templates/tutorial", "dst": ".",
"preserve_mode": "1", "preserve_times": "1", "preserve_symlinks": "0", "update": "0", "verbose":
"1", "dry_run": "0", "copy_file": "<function copy_file at 0x7ac20b13df30>", "names": "\"['actions',
'endpoints.yml', 'config.yml', 'credentials.yml', 'data', 'domain.ym\"+3", "outputs": "[]", "n":
"actions", "src_name": "'/opt/venv/lib/python3.10/site-
packages/rasa/cli/project_templates/tutorial/actio'+2", "dst_name": "./actions"}}, {"filename":
"/opt/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/setuptools/_distutils/dir_util.py", "lineno": 146, "name":
"copy_tree", "line": "", "locals": {"src": "'/opt/venv/lib/python3.10/site-
packages/rasa/cli/project_templates/tutorial/actio'+2", "dst": "./actions", "preserve_mode": "1",
"preserve_times": "1", "preserve_symlinks": "0", "update": "0", "verbose": "1", "dry_run": "0",
"copy_file": "<function copy_file at 0x7ac20b13df30>", "names": "['actions.py', '__init__.py',
'__pycache__']"}}, {"filename": "/opt/venv/lib/python3.10/site-
packages/setuptools/_distutils/dir_util.py", "lineno": 77, "name": "mkpath", "line": "", "locals":
{"name": "actions", "mode": "511", "verbose": "1", "dry_run": "0", "created_dirs": "[]", "head":
"actions", "tail": "actions", "tails": "['actions']", "d": "actions", "abs_head": "/app/actions"}}]},
{"exc_type": "PermissionError", "exc_value": "[Errno 13] Permission denied: 'actions'",
"syntax_error": null, "is_cause": false, "frames": [{"filename": "/opt/venv/lib/python3.10/site-
packages/setuptools/_distutils/dir_util.py", "lineno": 74, "name": "mkpath", "line": "", "locals":
{"name": "actions", "mode": "511", "verbose": "1", "dry_run": "0", "created_dirs": "[]", "head":
"actions", "tail": "actions", "tails": "['actions']", "d": "actions", "abs_head": "/app/actions"}}]}]}
Welcome to Rasa! 🤖