miro.real crashed with IOError in __init__() if ~/.miro owned by root

[Teräslilja]

Binary package hint: miro

Miro crashed in startup.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/miro.real
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: miro 1.2.6-0ubuntu1
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/miro.real
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/miro.real']
SourcePackage: miro
Title: miro.real crashed with IOError in __init__()
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-2-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout dip floppy fuse lpadmin plugdev video

[Teräslilja (m-matti-a-lehtonen)]

The owner of ~/.miro were root(user) and root (group). When corrected owner and group, miro started normally.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

I'm able to reproduce this by setting ownership to root. Miro should check for this and issue a friendly error rather than a crash. However, this is probably an unusual situation so setting it to low priority.