ERROR: apricot-image-ui-1.0-r0 do_rootfs: Error executing a python function in exec_python_func() autogenerated:

The stack trace of python calls that resulted in this exception/failure was:
File: 'exec_python_func() autogenerated', lineno: 2, function: <module>
     0001:
 *** 0002:do_rootfs(d)
     0003:
File: '/home/hdd/apricot/build/../sources/poky/meta/classes/image.bbclass', lineno: 245, function: do_rootfs
     0241:    progress_reporter.next_stage()
     0242:
     0243:    # generate rootfs
     0244:    d.setVarFlag('REPRODUCIBLE_TIMESTAMP_ROOTFS', 'export', '1')
 *** 0245:    create_rootfs(d, progress_reporter=progress_reporter, logcatcher=logcatcher)
     0246:
     0247:    progress_reporter.finish()
     0248:}
     0249:do_rootfs[dirs] = "${TOPDIR}"
File: '/home/hdd/apricot/build/../sources/poky/meta/lib/oe/rootfs.py', lineno: 977, function: create_rootfs
     0973:    img_type = d.getVar('IMAGE_PKGTYPE')
     0974:    if img_type == "rpm":
     0975:        RpmRootfs(d, manifest_dir, progress_reporter, logcatcher).create()
     0976:    elif img_type == "ipk":
 *** 0977:        OpkgRootfs(d, manifest_dir, progress_reporter, logcatcher).create()
     0978:    elif img_type == "deb":
     0979:        DpkgRootfs(d, manifest_dir, progress_reporter, logcatcher).create()
     0980:
     0981:    os.environ.clear()
File: '/home/hdd/apricot/build/../sources/poky/meta/lib/oe/rootfs.py', lineno: 240, function: create
     0236:
     0237:        self._run_ldconfig()
     0238:
     0239:        if self.d.getVar('USE_DEPMOD') != "0":
 *** 0240:            self._generate_kernel_module_deps()
     0241:
     0242:        self._cleanup()
     0243:        self._log_check()
     0244:
File: '/home/hdd/apricot/build/../sources/poky/meta/lib/oe/rootfs.py', lineno: 327, function: _generate_kernel_module_deps
     0323:
     0324:        kernel_ver = open(kernel_abi_ver_file).read().strip(' \n')
     0325:        versioned_modules_dir = os.path.join(self.image_rootfs, modules_dir, kernel_ver)
     0326:
 *** 0327:        bb.utils.mkdirhier(versioned_modules_dir)
     0328:
     0329:        self._exec_shell_cmd(['depmodwrapper', '-a', '-b', self.image_rootfs, kernel_ver])
     0330:
     0331:    """
File: '/home/hdd/apricot/sources/poky/bitbake/lib/bb/utils.py', lineno: 737, function: mkdirhier
     0733:    try:
     0734:        os.makedirs(directory)
     0735:    except OSError as e:
     0736:        if e.errno != errno.EEXIST or not os.path.isdir(directory):
 *** 0737:            raise e
     0738:
     0739:def movefile(src, dest, newmtime = None, sstat = None):
     0740:    """Moves a file from src to dest, preserving all permissions and
     0741:    attributes; mtime will be preserved even when moving across
File: '/home/hdd/apricot/sources/poky/bitbake/lib/bb/utils.py', lineno: 734, function: mkdirhier
     0730:    directory already exists like os.makedirs
     0731:    """
     0732:
     0733:    try:
 *** 0734:        os.makedirs(directory)
     0735:    except OSError as e:
     0736:        if e.errno != errno.EEXIST or not os.path.isdir(directory):
     0737:            raise e
     0738:
File: '/usr/lib/python3.8/os.py', lineno: 223, function: makedirs
     0219:            cdir = bytes(curdir, 'ASCII')
     0220:        if tail == cdir:           # xxx/newdir/. exists if xxx/newdir exists
     0221:            return
     0222:    try:
 *** 0223:        mkdir(name, mode)
     0224:    except OSError:
     0225:        # Cannot rely on checking for EEXIST, since the operating system
     0226:        # could give priority to other errors like EACCES or EROFS
     0227:        if not exist_ok or not path.isdir(name):
Exception: PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/hdd/apricot/build/tmp/work/qtiquingvm-mbient-linux/apricot-image-ui/1.0-r0/rootfs/lib/modules/4.14.202-perf'

ERROR: Logfile of failure stored in: /home/hdd/apricot/build/tmp/work/qtiquingvm-mbient-linux/apricot-image-ui/1.0-r0/temp/log.do_rootfs.71185
ERROR: Task (/home/hdd/apricot/build/../sources/meta-apricot/recipes-apricot/images/apricot-image-ui.bb:do_rootfs) failed with exit code '1'
NOTE: Tasks Summary: Attempted 12416 tasks of which 12415 didn't need to be rerun and 1 failed.