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

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 11:34:34PM -0600, drew bodker wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 21:44 -0700, David Fifield wrote:
> > 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?
>
> I do not have a ~/.zenmap folder at all.  It's looking
> to /usr/share/zenmap/config and on my system(s) it looks like it should
> be /usr/local/share/zenmap/config.
>
> launching via the command line with or without sudo produces the error.
> Launching from the menu does as well.  Except with the (as root) option
> where nothing happens at all.  No error and no opportunity to enter
> password.

Did you install using the checkinstall tool? Do you know if checkinstall
changes the prefix when it works?

What does the "prefix =" line say near the top of Makefile after
installing? What is the output line that calls setup.py when you run
"make install"? For me it's

cd zenmap && /usr/bin/python setup.py install --prefix "/usr" --force

David Fifield
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