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  • Committer: Michael Vogt
  • Date: 2011-04-19 18:15:39 UTC
  • Revision ID: michael.vogt@ubuntu.com-20110419181539-272co2435ccy67fv
softwarecenter/log.py: just try the rename 10 times, we should never need this more than once, if we need that many renames it should crash for the user so that we learn what is going wrong

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# try to fix inaccessible s-c directory (#688682)
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if not os.access(SOFTWARE_CENTER_CACHE_DIR, os.W_OK):
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    logging.warn("found not writable '%s' dir, trying to fix" % SOFTWARE_CENTER_CACHE_DIR)
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    i = 0
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    while True:
 
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    # if we have to do more renames, soemthing else is wrong and its
 
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    # ok to crash later to learn about the problem
 
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    for i in range(10):
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        target = "%s.%s" % (SOFTWARE_CENTER_CACHE_DIR, i)
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        if not os.path.exists(target):
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            os.rename(SOFTWARE_CENTER_CACHE_DIR, target)
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            break
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        i += 1
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    os.makedirs(SOFTWARE_CENTER_CACHE_DIR)
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# according to bug 688682 many people have a non-writeable logfile