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keybase.kbfs not starting on Mac OS X #3576

Open bgschaid opened 8 years ago

bgschaid commented 8 years ago

I yesterday download the binary release to play around with the filesystem. But it is not working. I keep getting these two messages in the system.log:

Jul 22 10:30:43 bgs-cool-greybook com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (keybase.kbfs[9485]): Service exited with abnormal code: 2
Jul 22 10:30:43 bgs-cool-greybook com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (keybase.kbfs): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.

Don't know if this is the problem: I had two previous installations of keybase: one through npmand one through MacPorts. Both of them were uninstalled. The Folder /keybase already exists and dates from February (when I played with KeyBase). Don't remember if I created it or it was created by some program. Rights to that folder are

drwxr-xr-x    2 root      wheel     68 Feb  9 20:36 keybase

my log id: cf58777ee4cc226dde8e981c

maxtaco commented 8 years ago

Looking at your logs:

891 2016-07-22T10:29:41.448361 ▶ [DEBU kbfs main.go:107] 002 Mounting: /keybase
892 2016-07-22T10:29:41.448399 ▶ [DEBU keybase login_state.go:882] 003 LoginState: Running request loop
893 2016/07/22 10:29:41 mount helper error: mount_kbfuse: failed to mount /keybase@/dev/kbfuse0: Operation not permitted
894 2016/07/22 10:29:41 mount helper error: mount_kbfuse: failed to mount /keybase@/dev/kbfuse0: Operation not permitted

@gabriel any ideas on this?

bgschaid commented 8 years ago

I think I "fixed" it: I removed the /keybase-folder and then killed every process with "keybase" in the name (a bit brutal). Then the Application reopened and I was asked to enter my passphrase and the folders /keybase/public and /keybase/private were there and now it seems to work. My guess what happend is: when playing around in February the /keybasefolder was created (possibly by me). Now when I downloaded the app and installed it the initalisation routine said "cool. I was already here because the /keybasefolder is here. Let the mounting begin" and the part in charge of mounting said "Na. Subfolders are missing. I'll try again in 10 seconds"

gabriel commented 8 years ago

Yeah, the installer isn't smart enough to detect and fix a invalid existing placeholder dir for /keybase. It is something we'll get to though. Thanks for the feedback.

gabriel commented 8 years ago

Tracking this internally in our JIRA as https://keybase.atlassian.net/browse/DESKTOP-1554