> Maybe something to do with setting a weird PIPX_HOME ? Good catch. As root:
===8<---------------------------------------- $ PIPX_HOME=${prefix:-/opt/}/pipx PIPX_BIN_DIR=${prefix:-/usr/local}/bin pipx list venvs are in /opt/pipx/venvs apps are exposed on your $PATH at /usr/local/bin package argostranslate 1.9.6, installed using Python 3.11.2 - argos-translate - argospm ===8<---------------------------------------- As user: ===8<---------------------------------------- $ PIPX_HOME=${prefix:-/opt/}/pipx PIPX_BIN_DIR=${prefix:-/usr/local}/bin pipx list Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python3.11/logging/config.py", line 562, in configure handler = self.configure_handler(handlers[name]) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/usr/lib/python3.11/logging/config.py", line 747, in configure_handler result = factory(**kwargs) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/usr/lib/python3.11/logging/__init__.py", line 1181, in __init__ StreamHandler.__init__(self, self._open()) ^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/usr/lib/python3.11/logging/__init__.py", line 1213, in _open return open_func(self.baseFilename, self.mode, ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/opt/pipx/logs/cmd_2024-05-03_20.14.46.log' The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/pipx", line 8, in <module> sys.exit(cli()) ^^^^^ File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pipx/main.py", line 814, in cli setup(parsed_pipx_args) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pipx/main.py", line 753, in setup setup_logging("verbose" in args and args.verbose) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/pipx/main.py", line 745, in setup_logging logging.config.dictConfig(logging_config) File "/usr/lib/python3.11/logging/config.py", line 812, in dictConfig dictConfigClass(config).configure() File "/usr/lib/python3.11/logging/config.py", line 569, in configure raise ValueError('Unable to configure handler ' ValueError: Unable to configure handler 'file' ===8<---------------------------------------- Which is discussed here: https://github.com/pypa/pipx/issues/754#issuecomment-1181082995 I granted read access to /opt/pipx/logs/ for users and it made no difference. I’ll just have to use root to list pkgs and call it good enough for me. But certainly it’s a bug for pipx to crash and give a stack dump. In the very least it should give a specific user-readable error msg.