Initial.uid etc for root disk

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I tried searching but could not find an answer.

I’m trying to use this OCI container in Incus: https://hub.docker.com/r/matthuisman/kodi-headless

Default storage pool as root, dir driver.

The startup fails with this error:

Starting Kodi..
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'spdlog::spdlog_ex'
  what():  Failed opening file /root/.kodi/temp/kodi.log for writing: Permission denied
Aborted
/usr/bin/kodi: 81: cannot create /root/kodi_crashlog-20250916_122020.log: Permission denied
/usr/bin/kodi: 82: cannot create /root/kodi_crashlog-20250916_122020.log: Permission denied

etc.

So it looks like the kodi binary is trying to start as a normal user but the storage is created as root and so it fails.

I tried “incus storage volume create default kodi_root initial.uid=1000 initial.gid=1000 initial.mode=0700” but I can’t use this for root: “Root disk entry may not have a “source” property set”

Any idea how to make this work?

Edit: Chowning the log file inside container for kodi user works, I guess that gives me some options. I’d gladly still take idea for a best solve.

Edit2: Currently this disk config seems to work with the volume initial.uid=1000 initial.gid=1000.

  kodi_root:
    path: /root
    pool: default
    source: kodi_root
    type: disk
  root:
    path: /
    pool: default
    type: disk

Not sure if it’s the best way to do this, but it works.