Unable to lock file: lock.pid

[opensourcer2]

I got the error Unable to lock file: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '<working directory>/ZeroNet/lock.pid' I used the debian package.

[rllola]

Are you using the latest version (v0.2.5)? It should have created a lock.pid file in the $HOME/.zeronet/ folder.

Or you can try to create an empty lock.pid file in the <working directory>/ZeroNet/ folder. It might do the trick.

Le 8 oct. 2019 à 19:17, opensourcer2 notifications@github.com a écrit :

I got the error Unable to lock file: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/ZeroNet/lock.pid' I used the debian package.

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[opensourcer2]

I am using v0.2.5. But no lock.pid file is created in $HOME/.zeronet/. The only place I found in code that suppose to create this file is in the debian postinst script. But this can't be correct because $HOME in this script would mean the root user.

[rllola]

What distribution do you use? And could you tell me what is in your zeronet.conf?

It should have a line with your data_dir path.

[opensourcer2]

I am on Ubuntu 18.04. I don't see a zeronet.conf file.

[rllola]

I am also on Ubuntu 18.04 and it created the $HOME/.zeronet folder correctly. Can you try again to install it with this command sudo dpkg -i ZeronetBrowser_v0.2.5_i386.deb ?

Regarding the $HOME in the postinst script does give me /home/lola and not the root folder. I am not sure what I am missing here...

[opensourcer2]

Ok. This error is gone and $HOME/.zeronet folder is created after I reinstalled using sudo dpkg -i and start it from the application menu (does not run if started from terminal, it shows some other error). However, the homepage of zeronet still does not load (it said site can’t be reached). The first time I installed using the GUI (gdebi-gtk) by double clicking on the .deb file which did not complete successfully, but no error was shown so I assumed it was ok. So for some reason this .deb file cannot be successfully installed by double clicking.

The current recommended way to build debian package is to use debuild. Is there any reason you build with dpkg instead?

[rllola]

Cool. I haven't tested using the GUI. I will look into it.

No particular reason for using dpkg and there is definitely room for improvement. I will look into debuild too. See if we can switch to it.

I think it is normal the home page is not showing. It need to be downloaded. The .zeronet folder is empty.

[rllola]

The next release should fix the issue with the GUI.

https://github.com/rllola/ZeronetBrowser/pull/130