Incorrect ~/.bitcoin perms raises Boost exception, terminates bitcoin-qt #4059

issue ghost opened this issue on April 15, 2014

ghost commented at 4:44 PM on April 15, 2014: none
Accidentally discovered this when migrating to another machine.
- Debian Wheezy
- Bitcoin 0.9.1
- Change permissions on ~/.bitcoin to exclude running user
EXCEPTION: N5boost12interprocess22interprocess_exceptionE
Permission denied
bitcoin in Runaway exception
luke-jr commented at 4:48 PM on April 15, 2014: member

That's what I'd expect...?
ghost commented at 4:55 PM on April 15, 2014: none

@luke-jr Unhandled exceptions are expected? Besides, as the GUI does have a 'first run' window for the user to select where to store bitcoin data - that could be invoked if ~/.bitcoin isn't accessible ;)
luke-jr commented at 4:59 PM on April 15, 2014: member

The data, not the config.
laanwj commented at 6:17 PM on April 15, 2014: member

I made a patch once to improve datadir handling (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/3640), it might solve this as well. Needs rebasing though...
laanwj added the label Bug on May 13, 2014
laanwj added the label Priority Low on May 13, 2014
error10 cross-referenced this on Jul 3, 2014 from issue boost problem by andrewspiers
paveljanik cross-referenced this on Nov 22, 2014 from issue Process help and version arguments before datadir. by paveljanik
laanwj closed this on Nov 25, 2014
ajweiss cross-referenced this on May 19, 2015 from issue Catch errors on datadir lock and pidfile delete by ajweiss
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