[ome-users] Image Import Fails Silently

[Ilya Goldberg]

This might be my fault - I'll look into it.
Is this from CVS - how recently?

About the only way that an error isn't reported is if the apache user  
does not have permissions to access your data directory -  
specifically read the files that are in there.  Did you set your data  
directory to a NFS mounted share by chance, or a restricted user  
directory?  On several OSes, especially with mounted shares, I've  
seen files that are actually readable, but don't pass the -r test.   
The only way to tell is to actually open the file and read it.  I  
haven't figured out how to get around that yet.  Well, I guess other  
than to go ahead and open them and forget about the -r test.  Another  
way is to apply the -r test to the files before displaying them in  
the UI.

To see definitively if this is your problem, try this:
sudo -u apache bash -c 'if (test -r foo) then echo "yes"; fi;'

replace foo with the full path of the file you're trying to import.
If the apache user has permissions to read the file, you should see  
'yes' as the response.  If the apache user can't then you won't see  
anything.
If the apache user can actually read the file, but the permissions  
indicate that it can't, then this is the bug I'm talking about - the  
importer lists the files in the directory and tests them with the -r  
flag before attempting to import them.  If none of the files pass,  
then its got nothing to import so it fails silently.

-Ilya




On Jun 29, 2006, at 4:58 AM, Guenter Resch wrote:

> Hi Curtis,
>
>> You could try "ome import myFile.tif" from the command line to see if
>> it outputs anything more useful.
>
> import of all images except of one succeeded when done from the shell
> ... at least some data to play with, but no information on what is  
> going
> wrong.
>
>> For errors generated from the web client, try checking your Apache
>> error log (typically /var/log/apache2/error.log).
>
> In the Apache error log there is a lot of information on the image
> import, most of which does not tell me anything. As the log is quite
> long, I uploaded it to
>
> 	http://cellix.imba.oeaw.ac.at/gresch/error.log
>
> in case anyone wants to have a look at it.
> 	
> Thanks for the help,
>
> 	Guenter
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