[GH-ISSUE #526] Error when attempting to run using Ubuntu 22.04 with Pip 22.0.2 / Python 3.10 #899

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opened 2026-03-15 10:54:32 +03:00 by kerem · 3 comments

kerem commented

2026-03-15 10:54:32 +03:00

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Originally created by @StewAlexander-com on GitHub (Oct 17, 2022).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/asciinema/asciinema/issues/526

I installed it and tried to run, and it came back with permission error

stew@stew /> sudo apt install ascicinema
[sudo] password for stew: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package ascicinema
stew@stew / [100]> pip3 install asciinema
Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
Collecting asciinema
  Downloading asciinema-2.2.0-py3-none-any.whl (92 kB)
     ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 92.5/92.5 KB 558.2 kB/s eta 0:00:00
Installing collected packages: asciinema
Successfully installed asciinema-2.2.0
stew@stew /> asciinema rec first.cast
asciinema: recording asciicast to first.cast
asciinema: press <ctrl-d> or type "exit" when you're done
Process Process-2:
                  Traceback (most recent call last):
                                                      File "/usr/lib/python3.10/multiprocessing/process.py", line 314, in _bootstrap
      self.run()
                  File "/usr/lib/python3.10/multiprocessing/process.py", line 108, in run
                            self._target(*self._args, **self._kwargs)
      File "/home/stew/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/asciinema/recorder.py", line 141, in run
                                      with self.writer as w:
                                                              File "/home/stew/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/asciinema/asciicast/v2.py", line 126, in __enter__
                                       self._open_file()
                                                          File "/home/stew/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/asciinema/asciicast/v2.py", line 156, in _open_file
                                    self.file = open(
                                                     PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'first.cast'
                                               Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/stew/.local/bin/asciinema", line 8, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/home/stew/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/asciinema/__main__.py", line 215, in main
    code = command.execute()
  File "/home/stew/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/asciinema/commands/record.py", line 106, in execute
    recorder.record(
  File "/home/stew/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/asciinema/recorder.py", line 61, in record
    with async_writer(sync_writer, time_offset, record_stdin) as _writer:
  File "/home/stew/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/asciinema/async_worker.py", line 35, in __exit__
    raise RuntimeError(
RuntimeError: worker process exited with code 1

Originally created by @StewAlexander-com on GitHub (Oct 17, 2022). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/asciinema/asciinema/issues/526 I installed it and tried to run, and it came back with permission error ``` stew@stew /> sudo apt install ascicinema [sudo] password for stew: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package ascicinema stew@stew / [100]> pip3 install asciinema Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable Collecting asciinema Downloading asciinema-2.2.0-py3-none-any.whl (92 kB) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 92.5/92.5 KB 558.2 kB/s eta 0:00:00 Installing collected packages: asciinema Successfully installed asciinema-2.2.0 stew@stew /> asciinema rec first.cast asciinema: recording asciicast to first.cast asciinema: press <ctrl-d> or type "exit" when you're done Process Process-2: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python3.10/multiprocessing/process.py", line 314, in _bootstrap self.run() File "/usr/lib/python3.10/multiprocessing/process.py", line 108, in run self._target(*self._args, **self._kwargs) File "/home/stew/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/asciinema/recorder.py", line 141, in run with self.writer as w: File "/home/stew/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/asciinema/asciicast/v2.py", line 126, in __enter__ self._open_file() File "/home/stew/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/asciinema/asciicast/v2.py", line 156, in _open_file self.file = open( PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'first.cast' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/stew/.local/bin/asciinema", line 8, in <module> sys.exit(main()) File "/home/stew/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/asciinema/__main__.py", line 215, in main code = command.execute() File "/home/stew/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/asciinema/commands/record.py", line 106, in execute recorder.record( File "/home/stew/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/asciinema/recorder.py", line 61, in record with async_writer(sync_writer, time_offset, record_stdin) as _writer: File "/home/stew/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/asciinema/async_worker.py", line 35, in __exit__ raise RuntimeError( RuntimeError: worker process exited with code 1 ```

kerem closed this issue

2026-03-15 10:54:37 +03:00

kerem commented

2026-03-15 10:54:43 +03:00

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@StewAlexander-com commented on GitHub (Oct 17, 2022):

Attempting to use sudo did not work because it cannot find the pip app

stew@stew / [1]> sudo asciinema rec first.cast
sudo: asciinema: command not found

@StewAlexander-com commented on GitHub (Oct 17, 2022): Attempting to use sudo did not work because it cannot find the pip app ``` stew@stew / [1]> sudo asciinema rec first.cast sudo: asciinema: command not found ```

kerem commented

2026-03-15 10:54:48 +03:00

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@StewAlexander-com commented on GitHub (Oct 17, 2022):

Output of pip

stew@stew / [127]> pip3 --version
pip 22.0.2 from /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip (python 3.10)
stew@stew />

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

@StewAlexander-com commented on GitHub (Oct 17, 2022): Output of pip ``` stew@stew / [127]> pip3 --version pip 22.0.2 from /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pip (python 3.10) stew@stew /> ``` * Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

kerem commented

2026-03-15 10:54:53 +03:00

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@ku1ik commented on GitHub (Apr 15, 2023):

From stack trace it look like write permission error. It's not issue with asciinema, the error output is ugly though, needs improvement. This is related to #543.

@ku1ik commented on GitHub (Apr 15, 2023): From stack trace it look like write permission error. It's not issue with asciinema, the error output is ugly though, needs improvement. This is related to #543.