IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/trac/proyecto/prueba/conf/trac.ini'

[tieng.wu@…]

How to Reproduce

While doing a POST operation on /admin, Trac issued an internal error.

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Request parameters:

{'__FORM_TOKEN': u'fbfee173e2ba9be526f7ca8e',
 'cat_id': None,
 'descr': u'repositorio para colocar pruebas con trac y c\xf3digos generales.',
 'name': u'prueba',
 'panel_id': None,
 'path_info': None,
 'url': u''}

User Agent was: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008121717 Mandriva/1.9.0.5-0.1mdv2009.0 (2009.0) Firefox/3.0.5

System Information

Trac	0.11.1
Python	2.5.2 (r252:60911, Jan 8 2009, 12:17:37) [GCC 4.3.2]
setuptools	0.6c9
pyPgSQL	2.4
Genshi	0.5.1
mod_python	3.3.1
Pygments	0.10
Subversion	1.5.2 (r32768)
jQuery:	1.2.6

Python Traceback

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/trac/web/main.py", line 423, in _dispatch_request
    dispatcher.dispatch(req)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/trac/web/main.py", line 197, in dispatch
    resp = chosen_handler.process_request(req)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/trac/admin/web_ui.py", line 113, in process_request
    path_info)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/trac/admin/web_ui.py", line 192, in render_admin_panel
    self.config.save()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/trac/config.py", line 189, in save
    fileobj = open(self.filename, 'w')
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/trac/proyecto/prueba/conf/trac.ini'

[Emmanuel Blot]

Installation error: trac.ini file should be writeable for the web server.

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