[Dachs-support] DaCHS Installation Warnings

Markus Demleitner msdemlei at ari.uni-heidelberg.de
Wed Apr 13 15:30:07 CEST 2022


Hi Franziska,

On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 08:53:21AM -0400, fmenti wrote:
> Today I installed DaCHS on a virtual debian machine I obtained via
> osboxes.org. I got some warning messages during the installation and was
> wondering if I need to do anything about them.
> 
> Warning: The home dir /nonexistent you specified can't be accessed: No such
> file
>  or directory
> 
>  Not creating home directory `/nonexistent'.

That's harmless -- the gavo user by default doesn't have a home. I
suppose I should somehow shut the message up, but I've been too lazy
so far to research the pertinent Debian policy.

>  /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gavo/base/config.py:603: UserWarning:
> /var/gavo/e
> tc/defaultmeta.txt does not exist, registry interface  will be broken
>   warnings.warn("%s does not exist, registry interface  will be broken"%
> 
> Do you need me to send the whole shell output from the installation to
> figure out the problem?

That *was* normal.  However, I finally realised it's annoying people
for no good reason, and hence starting 2.5 (IIRC) DaCHS no longer
issues the warning.

During installation, it's harmless and expected.

         -- Markus


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