[RC3] Permission denied: '/filestore'

[Christophe CHAUVET]

Server revno: 1632
Addons revno: 2146

On a new server, after install all dependencies
- openerp-server is launch by a specific user "oerp" as single user (no admin role)
- create new database with service profile, add logo on company wizard
- log in with admin
- go to Financial Management -> Invoices
- select the only invoice and click on "Invoice" to print it.
This message appear.

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/oerp/openerp/openerp/server/bin/service/web_services.py", line 585, in go
    (result, format) = obj.create(cr, uid, ids, datas, context)
  File "/home/oerp/openerp/openerp/server/bin/report/report_sxw.py", line 638, in create
    }, context=context
  File "/home/oerp/openerp/stable/server/bin/addons/document/document.py", line 645, in create
    result = super(document_file,self).create(cr, uid, vals, context)
  File "/home/oerp/openerp/stable/server/bin/addons/base/ir/ir_attachment.py", line 80, in create
    return super(ir_attachment, self).create(cr, uid, values, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/oerp/openerp/openerp/server/bin/osv/orm.py", line 2396, in create
    self._columns[field].set(cr, self, id_new, field, vals[field], user, context)
  File "/home/oerp/openerp/openerp/server/bin/osv/fields.py", line 639, in set
    self._fnct_inv(obj, cr, user, id, name, value, self._fnct_inv_arg, context)
  File "/home/oerp/openerp/stable/server/bin/addons/document/document.py", line 512, in _data_set
    os.makedirs(path)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/os.py", line 164, in makedirs
    makedirs(head, mode)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/os.py", line 171, in makedirs
    mkdir(name, mode)
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/filestore'
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Distribution: Ubuntu
Version: 8.04 (hardy)
Python 2.5.2

[Fabien (Open ERP) (fp-tinyerp)]

If you install document management module, you must have write access on the filesystem to use reports and attachments.

[Christophe CHAUVET (christophe-chauvet)]

ok but why install it on /filestore and not on server/bin/filestore
I don't want to launch my server with root account to create the path filestore on /

[Christophe CHAUVET (christophe-chauvet)]

A good method is ti put this path on the config file

[option]
filestore=/home/oerp/filestore

[Stephane Wirtel (OpenERP) (stephane-openerp)]

I think it's not a good solution, because if you lose the config file, your filestore will be wrong.

So I prefer to use a symlink to a directory, no need to change the config file.

[Fabien (Open ERP) (fp-tinyerp)]

It's not in /, it's in the server directory: os.path.join(os.getcwd(), "filestore", cr.dbname)

[Christophe Simonis (OpenERP) (kangol)]

In fact, it may.
os.getcwd() depend from where the script is called.

mbp-chris:tmp chris$ cat bug320126.py
#!/usr/bin/python
import os
print os.getcwd()

mbp-chris:tmp chris$ ./bug320126.py
/private/tmp
mbp-chris:tmp chris$ mkdir foo
mbp-chris:tmp chris$ cd foo/
mbp-chris:foo chris$ ../bug320126.py
/private/tmp/foo
mbp-chris:foo chris$

[Christophe Simonis (OpenERP) (kangol)]

fixed

[Christophe CHAUVET (christophe-chauvet)]

Ok i understand

My server is configure as a production server, i create a spécifique user, and adapt an initd script to launch OpenERP Server with invoke-rc.d command.

That's why it try to install in /

Thanks for the fix.