[Sugar-devel] "Permission denied" error in ReckonPrimer Activity

[Walter Bender]

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 7:23 PM, Christoph Derndorfer
<christoph.derndorfer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm running into an odd issue with the ReckonPrimer Activity some Austrian
> students have developed for our pilot project.
> Starting the activity works fine on just about every software version I've
> tried but unfortunately fails on build 767 which is the one being used in
> the school at the moment (yes, I'm well aware that's quite outdated hence
> why I'm looking forward to 11.2.0 and its German support;-).
> In the log it says "IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
> '/home/olpc/Activities/ReckonPrimer.activity/data/Collection.data'" (for the
> complete log please see the end of this e-mail) whereby the offending
> function is in collection.py (.xo file available
> at http://derndorfer.eu/files/permanent/ReckonPrimer-7.xo):
>     def set_data_in_pickle(self, root):
>         """ Sets data in pickle file """
>         path = os.path.join(os.getcwd(), "data/Collection.data")
>         f = open(path, "wb")
>         pickle.dump(root, f)
>         f.close()
> I really don't understand why this causes issues in 767 but none of the
> other (newer) software versions and I'd appreciate any pointers, thoughts or
> advice here. :-)
> Thanks,
> Christoph

'/home/olpc/Activities/ReckonPrimer.activity/data/Collection.data' is
not writeable with Rainbow enabled. You should be using
activity.get_activity_root() instead of os.getcwd().

-walter


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Walter Bender
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