Debian Bug report logs - #354214
amule-daemon: unclear error message on EPERM

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Emanuele Rocca <ema@debian.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: amule-daemon: fails to start

Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 13:48:56 +0100

Package: amule-daemon
Version: 2.1.0-3
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable


Executing /etc/init.d/amuled as root the daemon fails to start
without meaningful output.

This is the output of /usr/bin/amuled launched as a normal user 
(user with a running amule configuration in ~/.aMule):

aMule Version: aMuled 2.1.0 using wxGTK2 v2.6.1 (Unicoded)

Terminated after throwing an instance of 'CInvalidStateEx'
	what(): CRunTimeException::CInvalidStateException: CFile: Cannot get length of closed file.
	backtrace:
[2] wxAppTraits::~wxAppTraits() in amuled [0x806f27d]
[3] wxEntry(int&, wchar_t**) in /usr/lib/libwx_baseu-2.6.so.0[0xb79ef574]
[4] wxEntry(int&, char**) in /usr/lib/libwx_baseu-2.6.so.0[0xb79ef5ee]
[5] __gxx_personality_v0 in amuled[0x80691ce]
[6] __libc_start_main in /lib/tls/libc.so.6[0xb774aeb0]
[7] wxAppConsole::Initialize(int&, wchar_t**) in amuled[0x80690f1]


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.14-1-686
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages amule-daemon depends on:
ii  amule-common                  2.1.0-3    common files for aMule
ii  libc6                         2.3.6-1    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libcrypto++5.2c2a             5.2.1c2a-2 General purpose cryptographic shar
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.0.2-9  GCC support library
ii  libpng12-0                    1.2.8rel-5 PNG library - runtime
ii  libreadline5                  5.1-6      GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libstdc++6                    4.0.2-9    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libwxgtk2.6-0                 2.6.1.2    wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI t
ii  zlib1g                        1:1.2.3-9  compression library - runtime

amule-daemon recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information
ciao,
    ema

Message #10 received at 354214@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Emanuele Rocca <ema@debian.org>

To: 354214@bugs.debian.org

Subject: followup for 354214

Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 16:59:49 +0100

It seems that the problem is caused by wrong permissions on some files in ~/.aMule

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   5569 2006-02-24 12:56 amule.conf
-rw-r----- 1 ema  ema  145780 2006-02-24 12:56 clients.met
-rw-r----- 1 root root 145780 2006-02-24 12:56 clients.met.BAK
-rw-r--r-- 1 ema  ema     361 2005-08-24 15:17 cryptkey.dat
-rw-r----- 1 ema  ema       5 2006-02-24 12:56 emfriends.met
-rw-r--r-- 1 ema  ema       0 2005-12-29 18:55 ipfilter.dat
-rw-r--r-- 1 ema  ema     299 2006-02-21 17:54 ipfilter_static.dat
-rw-r----- 1 ema  ema      28 2006-02-24 12:56 key_index.dat
-rw-r----- 1 ema  ema   38280 2006-02-23 15:28 known2.met
-rw-r----- 1 ema  ema    9619 2006-02-24 12:56 known.met
-rw-r--r-- 1 ema  ema      12 2006-02-27 16:43 lastversion
-rw-r----- 1 ema  ema      12 2006-02-24 12:56 load_index.dat
-rw-r--r-- 1 ema  ema     180 2006-02-27 16:43 logfile
-rw------- 1 ema  ema       6 2006-02-27 16:43 muleLock
-rw-r----- 1 ema  ema       4 2006-02-24 12:56 nodes.dat
-rw-r----- 1 ema  ema      17 2006-02-24 12:56 preferences.dat
-rw-r----- 1 ema  ema      23 2006-02-24 12:56 preferencesKad.dat
-rw-r----- 1 root root  80842 2006-02-24 12:56 server.met
-rw-r----- 1 ema  ema   80842 2006-02-24 12:55 server_met.old
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root      0 2006-02-24 12:56 shareddir.dat
-rw-r----- 1 ema  ema      12 2006-02-24 12:56 src_index.dat

I really don't think I've changed them myself. 
Changing the ownership of the root:root files fixed the problem.

Note that someone else seems to have a similar problem:
http://bbs.kijiji.com.cn/topic/view/3713.html
Not that it is very informative. :)

Thanks.
ciao,
    ema

Message #15 received at 354214@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Angel Vidal (Kry)" <kry@amule.org>

To: 354214@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Wrong permisions.

Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 04:04:15 +0100

You did obviously run aMule with sudo at some point, as aMule can't do
priviledge escalation to change your files to root ownership.

So this should be closed :)

Message #20 received at 354214@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>

To: 354214@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: amule-daemon: fails to start

Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 00:47:05 -0800

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severity 354214 minor
retitle 354214 amule-daemon: unclear error message on EPERM
thanks

I think that there's still a bug here that's worth fixing, in that amule
gave a very non-obvious explanation for the failure.  But yes, that's not
release-critical, so downgrading.

Cheers,
-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
vorlon@debian.org                                   http://www.debian.org/

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Message #29 received at 354214@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Angel Vidal (Kry)" <kry@amule.org>

To: 354214@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Upstream ACK

Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 02:30:00 +0200

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ACK from me.

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Message #34 received at 354214-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Vollstrecker <amule@vollstreckernet.de>

To: 354214-done@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Tested and worked.

Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2010 15:52:01 +0100

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Hi,

as this bug is really old, and the submitter didn't react, I just 
changed the permissions of the files like in his report. amuled started 
and worked. amule.conf was changed back to owner and group of myself. I 
don't know how amule did this, because I had to use su to change the 
perms of the other files back to myself, too, but this bug can be 
considered to be done.

-- 
MfG usw.

Vollstrecker
registered Linuxuser: 295882

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