[Monotone-devel] [bug #18886] Crash if mtn genkey fails to save a key because of improper file system rights

[Zbigniew Zagórski]

Update of bug #18886 (project monotone):

                  Status:                    None => Fixed                  
             Open/Closed:                Accepted => Closed                 

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Follow-up Comment #1:

mtn 0.31: 

$ mv /home/zbigg/.monotone/ /home/zbigg/.monotoneX
$ chmod -w ~
$ ./mtn-0.31-linux-x86 genkey spam
mtn-0.31-linux-x86: generating key-pair 'spam'
enter passphrase for key ID [spam]:
confirm passphrase for key ID [spam]:
mtn-0.31-linux-x86: storing key-pair 'spam' in /home/zbigg/.monotone/keys/
mtn-0.31-linux-x86: fatal: boost::filesystem::filesystem_error:
boost::filesystem::create_directory: "/home/zbigg/.monotone": Permission
denied
mtn-0.31-linux-x86: this is almost certainly a bug in monotone.
mtn-0.31-linux-x86: please send this error message, the output of
'mtn-0.31-linux-x86 --full-version',
mtn-0.31-linux-x86: and a description of what you were doing to
address@hidden
mtn-0.31-linux-x86: failed to write debugging log to
/home/zbigg/.monotone/dump

mtn 0.47:

|i686| address@hidden:/home/zbigg/projects/monotone/0.31
$ mtn genkey spam
enter passphrase for key ID [spam] (...):
confirm passphrase for key ID [spam] (...):
mtn: generating key-pair 'spam'
mtn: storing key-pair 'spam' in /home/zbigg/.monotone/keys/
mtn: error: could not create directory '/home/zbigg/.monotone': Permission
denied


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