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Bug 638416 - Journal files for database-backed not directed to a writable directory
Journal files for database-backed not directed to a writable directory
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 642739
Product: GnuCash
Classification: Other
Component: General
2.4.x
Other Linux
: Normal major
: ---
Assigned To: Andreas Köhler
Andreas Köhler
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-12-31 17:43 UTC by Jeff Kletsky
Modified: 2018-06-29 22:50 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description Jeff Kletsky 2010-12-31 17:43:47 UTC
To replicate:

* Create a MySQL-backed GNUCash file
* cd to a directory that the user does not have permission to write
* start gnucash from the commandline with the MySQL-backed file
* Note that the journal files can't be written

Error: xaccOpenLog(): cannot open journal 
	 13 Permission denied
(multiple times)

* exit GNUCash
* cd to a directory that the user can write into
* start gnucash from the commandline with the MySQL-backed file
* Note that there are no error messages 
* The journal files appear to be written to $PWD/translog.YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.log

Repeatability: always

Expected -- the journal files would be written to a directory related to the user, or to one that the user specified, not to $PWD

Environment:

Ubuntu 10.10 i686 with apt-get upgrade as of morning of 2101-12-31

$ uname -a
Linux fx 2.6.35-24-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 2 01:41:57 UTC 2010 i686
GNU/Linux

GNUCash built from 
svn checkout http://svn.gnucash.org/repo/gnucash/tags/2.4.0 svn-2.4.0
./configure --prefix=/opt --enable-ofx --with-html-engine=webkit --enable-dbi
Comment 1 Geert Janssens 2011-04-06 19:26:51 UTC
Thanks for taking the time to report this bug.
This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but we are happy to tell you that the problem has already been fixed. It should be solved in the next software version. You may want to check for a software upgrade.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 642739 ***
Comment 2 John Ralls 2018-06-29 22:50:28 UTC
GnuCash bug tracking has moved to a new Bugzilla host. This bug has been copied to https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=638416. Please update any external references or bookmarks.