trac broken after changing logging settings

[Bernard François]

Binary package hint: trac

- open trac
- click the Admin button
- click on 'Loggin' under 'General'
- choose Type = file, Log level = DEBUG
- note that the 'Log file' is set to 'trac.log'
- click the 'Apply changes' button
- observe that you get an 'Internal Server Error' screen when you browse to any trac page

I managed to fix the bug by changing 'trac.log' to '/tmp/trac.log' in the trac.ini file.
This is probably a file permission issue.

trac should properly handle the case in which it cannot create a file. Even if the user would enter some arbitrary values (or make a typo) in the log file text field, this should not render trac unusable.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: trac 0.11.1-2.1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=C
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: trac
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-15-generic i686

[Bernard François (bernardfrancois-gmail)]

Note that I encountered this issue when I wanted to check what gets logged while reproducing the following bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/trac/+bug/469526

[Bernard François (bernardfrancois-gmail)]

In the meantime, I also added the bug to trac's trac:
http://trac.edgewall.org/ticket/8790

[Maarten Bezemer (veger)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug in the upstream bug tracking system this is a tremendous help. Launchpad has the ability to watch lots of upstream bug trackers and this can be done by following the procedure documented at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Watches. I've added the bug watch for this bug report.