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Permission denied error

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
aws, elixir
Domain
backend, cloud

Research direction

Reproduce the failure from the terminal or the AWS Lambda TEST button, then inspect the runtime entry point at bootstrap and the packaged /var/task/bin/hello_world path. Compare the generated package with the project instructions and verify the invocation no longer ends with permission denied or exit status 126.

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Description

Hi,

I followed the instructions, got everything added to a lambda function, however when I call it from the terminal I get:
{ "StatusCode": 200, "FunctionError": "Unhandled", "LogResult": "U1RBUlQgUmVxdWVzdE...", "ExecutedVersion": "$LATEST" }

Or directly via the "TEST" button in AWS Lambda, I get the error message:

`START RequestId: a46f2842-4561-46aa-8b81-a5284bcdc0ed Version: $LATEST

dirname /var/task/bootstrap

BASE=/var/task

EXE=/var/task/bin/hello_world

HOME=/tmp

export HOME

export RELEASE_READ_ONLY=true

RELEASE_READ_ONLY=true

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/lib64:/usr/lib64:/var/runtime:/var/runtime/lib:/var/task:/var/task/lib:/opt/lib:/var/task/lib/elixir_runtime-0.1.0/priv LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/lib64:/usr/lib64:/var/runtime:/var/runtime/lib:/var/task:/var/task/lib:/opt/lib:/var/task/lib/elixir_runtime-0.1.0/priv

/var/task/bin/hello_world foreground

/var/task/bootstrap: line 16: /var/task/bin/hello_world: Permission denied

END RequestId: a46f2842-4561-46aa-8b81-a5284bcdc0ed

REPORT RequestId: a46f2842-4561-46aa-8b81-a5284bcdc0ed Duration: 84.94 ms Billed Duration: 100 ms Memory Size: 128 MB Max Memory Used: 6 MB

RequestId: a46f2842-4561-46aa-8b81-a5284bcdc0ed Error: Runtime exited with error: exit status 126

Runtime.ExitError`

(emphasis mine)

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

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