Error running -testnet first time #2752

issue gavinandresen opened this issue on June 7, 2013

gavinandresen commented at 10:34 PM on June 7, 2013: contributor

Clean compile in a new virtual machine, run bitcoin-qt -testnet and I get:

No such file or directory: "/home/gavin/.bitcoin/testnet3" Aborted (core dumped)
laanwj commented at 11:18 PM on June 7, 2013: member
Indeed:
```
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'boost::filesystem3::filesystem_error'
  what():  boost::filesystem::create_directory: Bestand of map bestaat niet: "/home/s01/.bitcoin/testnet3"
Afgebroken (geheugendump gemaakt)
```
The problem is that if the parent directory (~/.bitcoin) doesn't yet exist, fs::create_directory will fail as it only creates a directory in an immediate parent directory. I've checked that using fs::create_directories in GetDataDir instead solves this.
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