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FIX: Prepend Singularity install dir to PATH prior to final check
This bug fix prepends the path of the Singularity installation directory to the PATH environment variable immediately following installation using the naked-singularity.sh install command and the final check to determine if Singularity was installed successfully. The problem here is that not all secure_path in /etc/sudoers may include the Singualrity install directory by default, which can lead this final install test to fail erroneously. This issue was observed when recently testing the naked-singularity.sh install command on CentOS 7 and CentOS 8. Both install processes threw a 'Singularity installation failed!' error even though the installations were successful [1] [2]. No such issue was observed on Ubuntu-based installations [3]. As stated above, the difference in behavior between these OSes was tracked down to what default paths were included in the secure_path variable in the /etc/sudoers file [4] [5] [6]. [1] ... INSTALL CNI PLUGIN /usr/local/libexec/singularity/cni/tuning INSTALL CNI CONFIGURATION FILES DONE make: Leaving directory `/tmp/singularity/builddir' Checking if Singularity was installed successully ... ./naked-singularity.sh: line 200: singularity: command not found ERROR :: Singularity installation failed! ERROR :: Failed to run install command. [centos@singularity-centos7-builder naked-singularity]$ singularity --version singularity version 3.5.3 [centos@singularity-centos7-builder naked-singularity]$ which singularity /usr/local/bin/singularity [centos@singularity-centos7-builder naked-singularity]$ [2] ... INSTALL CNI PLUGIN /usr/local/libexec/singularity/cni/tuning INSTALL CNI CONFIGURATION FILES DONE make: Leaving directory '/tmp/singularity/builddir' Checking if Singularity was installed successully ... ./naked-singularity.sh: line 200: singularity: command not found ERROR :: Singularity installation failed! ERROR :: Failed to run install command. [centos@singularity-centos8-builder naked-singularity]$ singularity --version singularity version 3.5.3 [centos@singularity-centos8-builder naked-singularity]$ which singularity /usr/local/bin/singularity [centos@singularity-centos8-builder naked-singularity]$ [3] ... INSTALL CNI PLUGIN /usr/local/libexec/singularity/cni/tuning INSTALL CNI CONFIGURATION FILES DONE make: Leaving directory '/tmp/singularity/builddir' Checking if Singularity was installed successully ... singularity version 3.5.3 Singularity was installed successfully! ubuntu@singularity-ubuntu1804-builder:~/naked-singularity$ singularity --versionsingularity version 3.5.3 ubuntu@singularity-ubuntu1804-builder:~/naked-singularity$ which singularity /usr/local/bin/singularity ubuntu@singularity-ubuntu1804-builder:~/naked-singularity$ [4] [centos@singularity-centos7-builder naked-singularity]$ sudo cat /etc/sudoers | grep secure_path Defaults secure_path = /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin [centos@singularity-centos7-builder naked-singularity]$ [5] [centos@singularity-centos8-builder naked-singularity]$ sudo cat /etc/sudoers | grep secure_path Defaults secure_path = /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin [centos@singularity-centos8-builder naked-singularity]$ [6] ubuntu@singularity-ubuntu1804-builder:~/naked-singularity$ sudo cat /etc/sudoers | grep secure_path Defaults secure_path="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/snap/bin" ubuntu@singularity-ubuntu1804-builder:~/naked-singularity$
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