tlshell failure on x86_64-linux

[Siep Kroonenberg]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 10:13:14AM +0100, Robert Alessi wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I just tried to launch tlshell on pretest as a normal user, but I got
> the following instead.  Everything else works perfectly so far.
> 
> ---------------------%>---------------------
> $ tlshell
> Error in startup script: couldn't open "/usr/local/texlive/2020/1135": permission denied
>     while executing
> "open $newfile w"
>     invoked from within
> "if [file exists $newfile] {
>       continue
>     } else {
>       set fid [open $newfile w]
>       chan close $fid
>       if [file exists $newfile] {
>       ..."
>     (procedure "dir_writable" line 5)
>     invoked from within
> "dir_writable $::instroot"
>     (procedure "initialize" line 64)
>     invoked from within
> "initialize"
>     (file "/usr/local/texlive/2020/bin/x86_64-linux/tlshell" line 2422)
> ---------------------%>---------------------

Is the installation root writable by a regular user?

-- 
Siep Kroonenberg