Re: zenmap - No such file or directory: '/usr/share/zenmap/config'

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 07:24:53PM -0600, drew bodker wrote:
> Hello, 
>
> On fresh installs of Ubuntu 9.10, zenmap launch fails with the following
> error:
>
> Error creating the per-user configuration directory
>
> There was an error creating the directory u'/home/username/.zenmap' or
> one of the files in it. The directory is created by copying the contents
> of '/usr/share/zenmap/config'. The specific error was
>
> "[Errno 2] "
>
> Zenmap needs to create this directory to store information such as the
> list of scan profiles. Check for access to the directory and try again.
> --------------------------
>
> I see a thread was started here:
> http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/2009/q4/326 but Davids questions weren't
> answered.  
>
> I do not have a distro supplied version installed on these machines. All
> installs are fresh from svn. Machines that were upgraded via the Update
> Manager do not exhibit this behavior.  The error happens on both 32 and
> 64 bit machines.

Hi, thanks for writing. How are you launching Zenmap? As root with sudo
or as a normal user? Does the /home/username/.zenmap directory exist,
and if so, what are its permissions?

David Fifield
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