Trac error when trying to create ticket attachment: OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/svnroot/trac/ipp/attachments/ticket/1225'

[Sebastian Jester]

No idea what the ticket 'component' is for problems with trac...

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 'attachment': FieldStorage('attachment', 'Standalone Ohana compilation trial.txt', 'Von: Eugene Magnier <eugene@ifa.hawaii.edu>\nDatum: 21. Januar 2009 19:03:14 MEZ\nAn: Mark Huber <mhuber@pha.jhu.edu>\nKopie: Sebastian Jester <jester@mpia-hd.mpg.de>, Michael Wood-Vasey  \n<wmwv@pitt.edu>\nBetreff: Re: Standalone Ohana compilation trial\n\nwe can probably circumvent these problems by supplying the psbuild and\nextlibs directories as well and guiding people to use the same\ninstallation method as for the full IPP install.  The psbuild library\nlist can be reduced to just the few needed by Ohana (readline, jpeg,\npng)\n\ngene\n\nOn Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 7:22 AM, Mark Huber <mhuber@pha.jhu.edu> wrote:\n> Hi Sebastian - compiling on my RHEL5 system also works okay but I\'m  \n> having a\n> problem with the shared libs not being found when i try to run  \n> dvo.  I can\n> add the Ohana.20081024/lib dir to my LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment  \n> variable or\n> add -Wl,-R/path to the Makefile.System and recompile it.  Are you also\n> having this problem?  Compiling on my mac seems to automatically  \n> include the\n> full paths to the Ohana libs, not sure why.\n>\n> mark\n>\n> On Jan 20, 2009, at 3:31 PM, Sebastian Jester wrote:\n>\n>> Hi Gene,\n>>\n>> found the Ohana tarball (via finding your email and realizing that  \n>> I have\n>> to think \'Ohana\' when I mean \'dvo\') at\n>> http://kiawe.ifa.hawaii.edu/IPPwiki/index.php/ \n>> DVODB.Synth.grizy.bright\n>>\n>> Tried it on both my powerbook G4 with MacOS 10.4.11, and on the\n>> institute\'s linux machine where IPP runs.\n>>\n>> Mark, Michael: do you have a 10.5 machine where you could try it,  \n>> too? If\n>> not, I can do it at work tomorrow, it\'s too late for me now.\n>>\n>> On the linux machine with Suse 10.2, it compiled without  \n>> complaints, but I\n>> haven\'t tried it yet.\n>>\n>> On my G4, it runs down to\n>>\n>> ar rcv\n>> /Users/jester/science/Panstarrs/IPP/Ohana.20081024/src/libdvo/lib/ \n>> libdvo.darwin.a\n>> ....\n>> and then can\'t find lots of the input files in libautocode\n>>\n>> ar:\n>> /Users/jester/science/Panstarrs/IPP/Ohana.20081024/src/libautocode/ \n>> src/coords.darwin.o:\n>> No such file or directory\n>>\n>> etc. That\'s because\n>> /Users/jester/science/Panstarrs/IPP/Ohana.20081024/src/libautocode/ \n>> src\n>> doesn\'t exist:\n>>\n>> ls /Users/jester/science/Panstarrs/IPP/Ohana.20081024/src/ \n>> libautocode/\n>> CVS              Makefile         Makefile.Targets  \n>> def              doc\n>>            generate         include\n>>\n>> That was the first try; on the second try, where I redirected the  \n>> output\n>> to be able to send it to you, it ran much longer and finished with a\n>> different error; I think it\'s the well-known readline one:\n>>\n>>\n>> /Users/jester/science/Panstarrs/IPP/Ohana.20081024/src/opihi/ \n>> include/shell.h:126:\n>> error: parse error before "rl_compentry_func_t"\n>>\n>> No idea how to fix that quickly outside the psbuild environment...\n>>\n>> S\n>>\n>> <Ohana.20081024.compile.darwin>\n>\n>\n'),
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System Information

Trac	0.11.2
Python	2.4.4 (#1, Jun 26 2008, 15:49:11) [GCC 4.1.2 (Gentoo 4.1.2 p1.1)]
setuptools	0.6c9
SQLite	3.4.1
pysqlite	2.3.5
Genshi	0.5.1
mod_python	3.3.1
Pygments	0.10
Subversion	1.5.4 (r33841)
jQuery:	1.2.6

Python Traceback

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/trac/web/main.py", line 432, in _dispatch_request
    dispatcher.dispatch(req)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/trac/web/main.py", line 204, in dispatch
    resp = chosen_handler.process_request(req)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/trac/attachment.py", line 394, in process_request
    self._do_save(req, attachment)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/trac/attachment.py", line 605, in _do_save
    attachment.insert(filename, upload.file, size)
  File "/usr/lib64/python2.4/site-packages/trac/attachment.py", line 218, in insert
    os.makedirs(self.path)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/os.py", line 159, in makedirs
    mkdir(name, mode)
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/svnroot/trac/ipp/attachments/ticket/1225'

[Paul Price]

See also ticket 1249.

[Sebastian Jester]

Just tried to create an attachment to #1276 and still get the same error... I know nobody's out of work, but fixing this one now will save some work later.

[gavin]

changed ticket directory owner / group to apache:nebulous. svn trac now able to write to directory.

drwxr-xr-x 86 apache nebulous 4096 2009-07-06 16:53 ticket

[Paul Price]

Thanks Gavin!