[ome-devel] Suggestion: check repository permissions at startup

[Harri Jäälinoja]

Hello,

I think the command "bin/omero admin start" should check if the 
repository directory (/OMERO by default) is accessible. Despite clear 
instructions, a user can still find a way to not make it available :) 
The majority of error messages that follow as the install proceeds are 
not helpful to locate the problem.

I started to install OMERO like this:
                                     user      group
/OMERO                              omerouser omerouser

Then as I am working in a virtual server, 'su' does not work (or I don't 
have the real root access), and with 'sudo' I had problems with 
environment variables, so I had to continue the install with my own 
account name, and I chowned the install dir (inside the repository dir, 
following the recently posted instructions for Centos ):

/OMERO/OMERO.server-Beta-4.2.0      hajaalin  users

At this point, I forgot to make also /OMERO belong to hajaalin:users.

The result was that the install failed, with complicated error messages 
about problems creating beans, the webadmin complained about password 
etc. On the positive side, somewhere in the diagnostics there was also 
the question "did you create /OMERO?" or something similar.

Now I changed the owner of /OMERO, and the install went ok, webadmin is 
up, all looks good so far!

Regards,
Harri