Issues

If you are facing issues like this when using python libraries like “queue = multiproccesing.Queue()”, you may face this issue

Error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/local/intel/2020/intelpython3/lib/python3.7/multiprocessing/context.py", line 102, in Queue
return Queue(maxsize, ctx=self.get_context())
File "/usr/local/intel/2020/intelpython3/lib/python3.7/multiprocessing/queues.py", line 42, in __init__
self._rlock = ctx.Lock()
File "/usr/local/intel/2020/intelpython3/lib/python3.7/multiprocessing/context.py", line 67, in Lock
return Lock(ctx=self.get_context())
File "/usr/local/intel/2020/intelpython3/lib/python3.7/multiprocessing/synchronize.py", line 162, in __init__
SemLock.__init__(self, SEMAPHORE, 1, 1, ctx=ctx)
File "/usr/local/intel/2020/intelpython3/lib/python3.7/multiprocessing/synchronize.py", line 59, in __init__
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PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied

When executing the code with root privilege, it was working fine, but a normal user doesn’t have permission to access shared memory.

Resolution:

You can counter-check the issue by checking /dev/shm

% ls -ld /dev/shm

Change Permission to 777

% chmod 777 /dev/shm

Turn on the sticky bit

% chmod +t /dev/shm

% ls -ld /dev/shm
drwxrwxrwt 4 root root 520 Mar 5 13:32 /dev/shm