pypa/virtualenv — Issue #209: OSError: [Errno 30] Read-only file system
Author: rlayte
Created: 2011-12-26 23:11:55+00:00
State: open

I've started getting a strange error when trying to create new environments:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/virtualenv", line 9, in
load_entry_point('virtualenv==1.7', 'console_scripts', 'virtualenv')()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/virtualenv.py", line 928, in main
never_download=options.never_download)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/virtualenv.py", line 1029, in create_environment
site_packages=site_packages, clear=clear))
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/virtualenv.py", line 1145, in install_python
fix_local_scheme(home_dir)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/virtualenv.py", line 1430, in fix_local_scheme
os.symlink(os.path.abspath(home_dir), local_path)
OSError: [Errno 30] Read-only file system

I'm running Ubuntu 11.04 through Virtualbox - I've tried destroying and rebuilding the box from scratch (using an unchanged puppet manifest), but the same error persists.