Crash over log file on startup with multiple users

[Andrew "Ozz" Oswald]

Zim crashes on startup. It cannot write to a log file on /tmp when another user's session has written the file first.

Running Mint (Linux) Version: 17.2
Python Ver: 2.7.6
gtk: 2.24.23
pygtk: 2.24.0

Output on startup:

embr@comet ~ $ zim
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/zim", line 74, in <module>
    zim.main(argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/zim/__init__.py", line 294, in main
    zim.ipc.handle_argv()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/zim/ipc.py", line 121, in handle_argv
    servermain()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/zim/ipc.py", line 314, in servermain
    err_stream = open(os.path.join(dir, "zim-deamon.log"), "w")
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/tmp/zim-deamon.log'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/zim", line 74, in <module>
    zim.main(argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/zim/__init__.py", line 443, in main
    start_server_if_not_running()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/zim/ipc.py", line 277, in start_server_if_not_running
    raise AssertionError, 'Failed to start server (spawning)'
AssertionError: Failed to start server (spawning)

embr@comet ~ $ ls -l /tmp/zim*
-rw-r--r-- 1 ozz ozz 1788 Oct 2 12:40 /tmp/zim-deamon.log

embr@comet ~ $ zim --version
zim 0.60

[Jaap Karssenberg (jaap.karssenberg)]

Has already been fixed in newer releases