WARNING: The directory '/home/pibirdnet/.cache/pip' or its parent directory is not owned or is not writable by the current user.

[srchild]

I'm getting this error showing when I run update. but my permissions/ownerships appear to be correct.

WARNING: The directory '/home/pibirdnet/.cache/pip' or its parent directory is not owned or is not writable by the current user. The cache has been disabled. Check the permissions and owner of that directory. If executing pip with sudo, you should use sudo's -H flag.

Is it a spurious error message or do I need to adjust some permissions/ownerships?

dir -la /home/pibirdnet
total 11696
drwxr-xr-x 10 pibirdnet pibirdnet 4096 Feb 15 16:40 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Apr 4 2022 ..
drwxr-xr-x 3 pibirdnet pibirdnet 4096 Feb 15 12:14 .apprise
-rw------- 1 pibirdnet pibirdnet 14008 Feb 19 16:44 .bash_history
-rw-r--r-- 1 pibirdnet pibirdnet 220 Apr 4 2022 .bash_logout
lrwxrwxrwx 1 pibirdnet pibirdnet 44 Feb 15 13:48 .bashrc -> /home/pibirdnet/BirdNET-Pi/templates/bashrc
-rw-rw-r-- 1 pibirdnet pibirdnet 7895794 Feb 15 16:23 birddb.csv
drwxrwxr-x 10 pibirdnet pibirdnet 4096 Feb 16 08:38 BirdNET-Pi
-rw-rw-r-- 1 pibirdnet pibirdnet 3837952 May 20 2022 birds.db
drwxrwxrwx 14 pibirdnet pibirdnet 4096 Feb 1 00:00 BirdSongs
drwxr-xr-x 4 pibirdnet pibirdnet 4096 May 20 2022 .cache
drwx------ 6 pibirdnet pibirdnet 4096 Feb 15 12:15 .config
drwxr-xr-x 3 pibirdnet pibirdnet 4096 Feb 15 12:14 .config.apprise
-rw-rw-r-- 1 pibirdnet pibirdnet 1712 Feb 6 15:55 dead.letter
lrwxrwxrwx 1 pibirdnet pibirdnet 43 Feb 15 13:48 .gotty -> /home/pibirdnet/BirdNET-Pi/templates/gotty
-rw-rw-r-- 1 pibirdnet pibirdnet 111976 May 20 2022 installation-2022-05-20.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 pibirdnet pibirdnet 36764 Feb 15 13:55 installation-2023-02-15.txt
-rw------- 1 pibirdnet pibirdnet 901 Feb 15 12:13 .joe_state
-rw------- 1 pibirdnet pibirdnet 78 Feb 15 14:38 .lesshst
drwxrwxr-x 13 pibirdnet pibirdnet 4096 Feb 15 13:49 phpsysinfo
-rw-r--r-- 1 pibirdnet pibirdnet 807 Apr 4 2022 .profile
-rw------- 1 pibirdnet pibirdnet 3906 May 30 2022 .sqlite_history
drwx------ 2 pibirdnet pibirdnet 4096 Dec 27 18:36 .ssh

dir -la /home/pibirdnet/.cache
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 4 pibirdnet pibirdnet 4096 May 20 2022 .
drwxr-xr-x 10 pibirdnet pibirdnet 4096 Feb 15 16:40 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 pibirdnet pibirdnet 4096 May 20 2022 matplotlib
drwxr-xr-x 4 pibirdnet pibirdnet 4096 May 20 2022 pip

dir -la /home/pibirdnet/.cache/pip
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 4 pibirdnet pibirdnet 4096 May 20 2022 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 pibirdnet pibirdnet 4096 May 20 2022 ..
drwxr-xr-x 18 pibirdnet pibirdnet 4096 May 20 2022 http
drwxr-xr-x 4 pibirdnet pibirdnet 4096 May 20 2022 wheels

dir -la /home/pibirdnet/.cache/pip/http
total 72
drwxr-xr-x 18 pibirdnet pibirdnet 4096 May 20 2022 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 pibirdnet pibirdnet 4096 May 20 2022 ..
drwxr-xr-x 16 pibirdnet pibirdnet 4096 Feb 15 13:52 0
drwxr-xr-x 17 pibirdnet pibirdnet 4096 Feb 15 13:52 1
drwxr-xr-x 16 pibirdnet pibirdnet 4096 May 20 2022 2
drwxr-xr-x 13 pibirdnet pibirdnet 4096 May 20 2022 3
drwxr-xr-x 14 pibirdnet pibirdnet 4096 May 20 2022 4
drwxr-xr-x 13 pibirdnet pibirdnet 4096 Feb 15 13:50 5
drwxr-xr-x 15 pibirdnet pibirdnet 4096 May 20 2022 6
drwxr-xr-x 16 pibirdnet pibirdnet 4096 Feb 15 13:51 7
drwxr-xr-x 16 pibirdnet pibirdnet 4096 Feb 15 13:52 8
drwxr-xr-x 13 pibirdnet pibirdnet 4096 May 20 2022 9
drwxr-xr-x 16 pibirdnet pibirdnet 4096 Feb 15 13:49 a
drwxr-xr-x 14 pibirdnet pibirdnet 4096 Feb 15 13:51 b
drwxr-xr-x 15 pibirdnet pibirdnet 4096 Feb 15 13:52 c
drwxr-xr-x 13 pibirdnet pibirdnet 4096 May 20 2022 d
drwxr-xr-x 16 pibirdnet pibirdnet 4096 Feb 15 13:52 e
drwxr-xr-x 11 pibirdnet pibirdnet 4096 May 20 2022 f

dir -la /home/pibirdnet/.cache/pip/wheels
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 4 pibirdnet pibirdnet 4096 May 20 2022 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 pibirdnet pibirdnet 4096 May 20 2022 ..
drwxr-xr-x 3 pibirdnet pibirdnet 4096 May 20 2022 65
drwxr-xr-x 3 pibirdnet pibirdnet 4096 May 20 2022 87

[ehpersonal38]

Thankfully that's not an error, just a warning. It's because the update script is called by the webserver which is owned by caddy. But it doesn't need caching so there's nothing to worry about.

[srchild]

I see. Thanks