Unable to write new project config files

[kmeinke]

Description

entrification of a category aborts with exception after the "💡 Run this command on other environments immediately after deploying these changes:" message.

The file /srv/www/kt_craft5_dev/config/project/ckeditor/configs dosnt exists, even its parent /srv/www/kt_craft5_dev/config/project/ckeditor dosnt exists.

`Exception 'yii\base\Exception' with message 'Unable to write new project config files'

in /srv/www/kt_craft5_dev/vendor/craftcms/cms/src/services/ProjectConfig.php:1652

Caused by: PHP Warning 'yii\base\ErrorException' with message 'rmdir(/srv/www/kt_craft5_dev/config/project/ckeditor/configs): Directory not empty'

in /srv/www/kt_craft5_dev/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/helpers/BaseFileHelper.php:466

Stack trace:
#0 [internal function]: yii\base\ErrorHandler->handleError()
#1 /srv/www/kt_craft5_dev/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/helpers/BaseFileHelper.php(466): rmdir()
#2 /srv/www/kt_craft5_dev/vendor/craftcms/cms/src/helpers/FileHelper.php(187): yii\helpers\BaseFileHelper::removeDirectory()
#3 /srv/www/kt_craft5_dev/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/helpers/BaseFileHelper.php(456): craft\helpers\FileHelper::removeDirectory()
#4 /srv/www/kt_craft5_dev/vendor/craftcms/cms/src/helpers/FileHelper.php(187): yii\helpers\BaseFileHelper::removeDirectory()
#5 /srv/www/kt_craft5_dev/vendor/craftcms/cms/src/helpers/FileHelper.php(579): craft\helpers\FileHelper::removeDirectory()
#6 /srv/www/kt_craft5_dev/vendor/craftcms/cms/src/services/ProjectConfig.php(1645): craft\helpers\FileHelper::clearDirectory()
#7 /srv/www/kt_craft5_dev/vendor/craftcms/cms/src/services/ProjectConfig.php(421): craft\services\ProjectConfig->writeYamlFiles()
#8 [internal function]: craft\services\ProjectConfig->flush()
#9 /srv/www/kt_craft5_dev/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/base/Component.php(645): call_user_func()
#10 /srv/www/kt_craft5_dev/vendor/craftcms/cms/src/base/ApplicationTrait.php(547): yii\base\Component->trigger()
#11 /srv/www/kt_craft5_dev/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/base/Application.php(387): craft\console\Application->trigger()
#12 /srv/www/kt_craft5_dev/craft(13): yii\base\Application->run()
#13 {main}
`

Additional info

• Craft version: crtaft 5.7.6
• PHP version: 8.3.8.
• Database driver & version: 10.11.11-MariaDB
• Plugins & versions: 4.8.0

[kmeinke]

also - pending changes dont go away if I apply them

[i-just]

Hi, thanks for getting in touch!

It sounds like it could be related to: craftcms/cms#14909 and craftcms/cms#7323.

Could you please check if there are any hidden files/folders in your project/config directory, if so, delete them, and then check if you’re still experiencing this issue?

Also, can you double-check if Craft has permissions to write to the config/project folder?

[kmeinke]

I have tonnes of hidden directories in the config. Craft should have plenty of write permissions.

I have deleted the hidden files and the pending changes vanished

I have created a new test category to use entrify on - and got the same error

The error message is true. ckconfig/config is not empty

The pending YALM changes reappeared:

The hidden files reappeared:

[kmeinke]

do you see? There is some strangeness in the group ownership of the files in ckedit/config. normaly all files and directories should be owned by www-data:webadmin. because of the GUID flag on the config/project directory.

If i create a directory as www-data in bash it gets the right user and group:

[kmeinke]

perhaps crafts sets the user:group of created files manualy to www-data? but even than... the files in ckeditor/config are writeable by craft. so if it want the directory gone - it should be able to empty it first.

[i-just]

Thanks for the additional info! Craft doesn’t set ownership of files to any arbitrary value. If you manually change the ownership of the config/project directory and all its content to www-data:webadmin, remove any hidden files as before and run the entrification command, does the same error get thrown again?