Incorrect ~/.bitcoin perms raises Boost exception, terminates bitcoin-qt #4059

1. 
   ghost commented at 4:44 pm on April 15, 2014: none

   Accidentally discovered this when migrating to another machine.

   • Debian Wheezy
   • Bitcoin 0.9.1
   • Change permissions on ~/.bitcoin to exclude running user

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   EXCEPTION: N5boost12interprocess22interprocess_exceptionE
   Permission denied
   bitcoin in Runaway exception

2. 
   luke-jr commented at 4:48 pm on April 15, 2014: member

   That’s what I’d expect…?
3. 
   ghost commented at 4:55 pm on April 15, 2014: none

   @luke-jr Unhandled exceptions are expected? Besides, as the GUI does have a ‘first run’ window for the user to select where to store bitcoin data - that could be invoked if ~/.bitcoin isn’t accessible ;)
4. 
   luke-jr commented at 4:59 pm on April 15, 2014: member

   The data, not the config.
5. 
   laanwj commented at 6:17 pm on April 15, 2014: member

   I made a patch once to improve datadir handling (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/3640), it might solve this as well. Needs rebasing though…
6. laanwj added the label Bug on May 13, 2014
7. laanwj added the label Priority Low on May 13, 2014
8. laanwj closed this on Nov 25, 2014

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9. DrahtBot locked this on Sep 8, 2021

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