Root cause of "attempt to write a readonly database (1544)" on repo
creation: Gitea's container always runs internally as UID 1000
(USER_UID/USER_GID are fixed in docker-compose.yml, independent of
whoever's running this installer) — the image chowns /data to that UID
itself at startup. install_gitea()'s three ensure_docker_dir_ownership
calls recursively chown the *entire* service directory, data/ included,
to $ACTUAL_USER. On a box where the installer runs as root directly
(ACTUAL_USER=root), that resets a live data/ back to UID 0. If the
container doesn't happen to restart right after — confirmed live: Update
mode against an already-running container just no-ops instead of
restarting — nothing ever re-fixes it, and every subsequent write to
Gitea's own SQLite DB fails.
Added _gitea_fix_ownership(), which chowns everything in the service
directory except data/, and swapped it in at all three call sites. The
container continues to own data/'s permissions exclusively, as it always
has on first boot; this installer no longer fights it on every rerun.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YEQNc4NfBST1m9NtCZVYa8
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