IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/services/trac/repos/conf/trac.ini'

[trac-admin]

How to Reproduce

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

(please provide additional details here)

Request parameters:

{'__FORM_TOKEN': u'0a2d0e4ea178528d1b354eee',
 'cat_id': u'general',
 'component': [u'tracspamfilter.adapters.AttachmentFilterAdapter',
               u'tracspamfilter.adapters.TicketFilterAdapter',
               u'tracspamfilter.adapters.WikiFilterAdapter',
               u'tracspamfilter.admin.AkismetAdminPageProvider',
               u'tracspamfilter.admin.BayesAdminPageProvider',
               u'tracspamfilter.admin.SpamFilterAdminPageProvider',
               u'tracspamfilter.api.FilterSystem',
               u'tracspamfilter.filters.akismet.AkismetFilterStrategy',
               u'tracspamfilter.filters.extlinks.ExternalLinksFilterStrategy',
               u'tracspamfilter.filters.ip_throttle.IPThrottleFilterStrategy',
               u'tracspamfilter.filters.regex.RegexFilterStrategy',
               u'tracspamfilter.filters.session.SessionFilterStrategy'],
 'enable': [u'tracspamfilter.filters.extlinks.ExternalLinksFilterStrategy',
            u'tracspamfilter.filters.ip_throttle.IPThrottleFilterStrategy'],
 'panel_id': u'plugin',
 'path_info': None,
 'plugin': u'4',
 'update': u'Apply changes'}

User Agent was: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042523 Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Firefox/3.0.10

System Information

Trac	0.11.3
Python	2.4.3 (#1, Mar 14 2007, 18:51:08) [GCC 4.1.1 20070105 (Red Hat 4.1.1-52)]
setuptools	0.6c9
SQLite	3.3.6
pysqlite	1.1.7
Genshi	0.5.1
Subversion	1.4.2 (r22196)
jQuery:	1.2.6

Python Traceback

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Trac-0.11.3-py2.4.egg/trac/web/main.py", line 435, in _dispatch_request
    dispatcher.dispatch(req)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Trac-0.11.3-py2.4.egg/trac/web/main.py", line 205, in dispatch
    resp = chosen_handler.process_request(req)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Trac-0.11.3-py2.4.egg/trac/admin/web_ui.py", line 113, in process_request
    path_info)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Trac-0.11.3-py2.4.egg/trac/admin/web_ui.py", line 394, in render_admin_panel
    self._do_update(req)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Trac-0.11.3-py2.4.egg/trac/admin/web_ui.py", line 478, in _do_update
    self.config.save()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Trac-0.11.3-py2.4.egg/trac/config.py", line 189, in save
    fileobj = open(self.filename, 'w')
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/services/trac/repos/conf/trac.ini'

[mudassir@…]

i want to install trac spam filter plugin , but i got above error , i use trac 11.3

thanks for any help

Mudassir Aftab

[osimons]

Installation issue. As the error says, your web server user does not have write permission to the trac.ini file and cannot enable/disable components as that needs to be recorded in that file.