Can't start new server-- get fatal exception while configuring server
[Moved from bugzilla] Reporter: geckox@keller-heikkila.org Description: Opened: 2003-07-31 02:22
Linux system, Python 2.3, Openssl 0.9.7
Here's the traceback:
root@xxx:/home/minion/etc# /etc/rc.d/mixminion.init start root@xxx:/home/minion/etc# This software is for testing purposes only. Anonymity is not guaranteed. Reading configuration from /home/minion/etc/mixminiond.conf Jul 30 19:17:13.979 [FATAL] Exception while configuring server Jul 30 19:17:13.989 [FATAL] Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/mixminion/server/ServerMain.py", line 1031, in runServer mixminion.Common.LOG.configure(config, keepStderr=1) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/mixminion/Common.py", line 722, in configure self.addHandler(_FileLogHandler(logfile)) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/mixminion/Common.py", line 629, in init self.reset() File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/mixminion/Common.py", line 638, in reset createPrivateDir(parent) File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/mixminion/Common.py", line 305, in createPrivateDir raise MixFatalError("Unable to create directory %s: %s" % d, e) TypeError: not enough arguments for format string Jul 30 19:17:13.990 [FATAL] Shutting down because of exception: exceptions.TypeError
root@xxx:/home/minion/etc#
------- Additional Comments From Nick Mathewson 2003-07-31 03:44 -------
This is fixed in CVS---or at least, the error message is better. It's a symptom of an underlying problem -- for some reason, you don't have permissions or ability to create the directory the log files are supposed to be in.
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