Can't synthesize in demo if someone else left /tmp/gradio on the system

[joanise]

Bug description

If you try to run the demo on a machine where another user ran it, and for some reason the temporary files in /tmp/gradio did not get cleaned up correctly, the demo starts but synthesizing in the demo systematically yields on error.

How to reproduce the bug

Have another user run

mkdir /tmp/gradio
chmod 755 /tmp/gradio

Then run

everyvoice demo logs_and_checkpoints/FeaturePredictionExperiment/base/checkpoints/last.ckpt logs_and_checkpoints/VocoderExperiment/base/checkpoints/last.ckpt

and try to synthesize any files.

Note that gradio normally cleans up its temporary files, so the problem would only "naturally" come up if the demo crashed and could not run its normal clean up routine.

Error messages and logs

The key part of the error log:

PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/tmp/gradio/dc71cb5cb269542f07afeb274a850cb2ff87cfec63fd48e69027beed8976e24b'

full log

Predicting DataLoader 0: 100%|████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████| 1/1 [00:00<00:00,  4.01it/s]^CTraceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/joanise/uvenvs/ev-py312/lib/python3.12/site-packages/gradio/queueing.py", line 625, in process_events
    response = await route_utils.call_process_api(
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/joanise/uvenvs/ev-py312/lib/python3.12/site-packages/gradio/route_utils.py", line 322, in call_process_api
    output = await app.get_blocks().process_api(
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/joanise/uvenvs/ev-py312/lib/python3.12/site-packages/gradio/blocks.py", line 2203, in process_api
    data = await self.postprocess_data(block_fn, result["prediction"], state)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/joanise/uvenvs/ev-py312/lib/python3.12/site-packages/gradio/blocks.py", line 1991, in postprocess_data
    await processing_utils.async_move_files_to_cache(
  File "/home/joanise/uvenvs/ev-py312/lib/python3.12/site-packages/gradio/processing_utils.py", line 652, in async_move_files_to_cache
    return await client_utils.async_traverse(
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/joanise/uvenvs/ev-py312/lib/python3.12/site-packages/gradio_client/utils.py", line 1129, in async_traverse
    return await func(json_obj)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/joanise/uvenvs/ev-py312/lib/python3.12/site-packages/gradio/processing_utils.py", line 625, in _move_to_cache
    temp_file_path = await block.async_move_resource_to_block_cache(
                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/joanise/uvenvs/ev-py312/lib/python3.12/site-packages/gradio/blocks.py", line 341, in async_move_resource_to_block_cache
    temp_file_path = processing_utils.save_file_to_cache(
                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/home/joanise/uvenvs/ev-py312/lib/python3.12/site-packages/gradio/processing_utils.py", line 279, in save_file_to_cache
    temp_dir.mkdir(exist_ok=True, parents=True)
  File "/home/joanise/.local/share/uv/python/cpython-3.12.10-linux-x86_64-gnu/lib/python3.12/pathlib.py", line 1311, in mkdir
    os.mkdir(self, mode)
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/tmp/gradio/dc71cb5cb269542f07afeb274a850cb2ff87cfec63fd48e69027beed8976e24b'

Work-around

If you run

GRADIO_TEMP_DIR=. everyvoice demo ...

then gradio creates its temporary directory in your current working direct instead of in /tmp, so things work.

Possible solution

Gradio lets the user pick a temporary directory via this GRADIO_TEMP_DIR environment variable, but not programmatically. A dirty solution would be to use os.environ["GRADIO_TEMP_DIR"] = "." before importing gradio, but I hope there's a cleaner way.