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

[Josh Moore]

Thanks for the suggestion, Harri. Unfortunately, we were too fast. :) This will be included in 4.2.1 as http://trac.openmicroscopy.org.uk/omero/ticket/2986. But good to hear that you have things up and running!

Best wishes,
~Josh.

On Oct 22, 2010, at 10:49 AM, Harri Jäälinoja wrote:

> 
> 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