id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version resolution keywords cc launchpad_bug 1536 nicely report any errors involving finding and using ifconfig zooko "A couple of users have recently [http://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2011-September/006676.html reported] errors from [http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/browser/trunk/src/allmydata/util/iputil.py?annotate=blame&rev=4971#L177 iputil] when it couldn't find their {{{ifconfig}}} executable, e.g.: {{{ [Failure instance: Traceback: : [Errno 2] No such file or directory /usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py:525:__bootstrap /usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py:552:__bootstrap_inner /usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py:505:run - --- --- /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/twisted/python/threadpool.py:207:_worker /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/twisted/python/context.py:118:callWithContext /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/twisted/python/context.py:81:callWithContext /home/kytv/tahoe/allmydata-tahoe-1.8.3/src/allmydata/util/iputil.py:222:_synchronously_find_addresses_via_config /home/kytv/tahoe/allmydata-tahoe-1.8.3/src/allmydata/util/iputil.py:236:_query /usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py:679:__init__ /usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py:1228:_execute_child ] calling os.abort() }}} We should catch this exception and report a useful error message, saying what the {{{sys.platform}}} was and asking them to report about their {{{ifconfig}}}, like David-Sarah [http://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2011-September/006677.html did] on the list: {{{ which ifconfig ifconfig --help ifconfig }}}" defect closed major 1.15.0 code-network 1.9.0a1 fixed error pyutil iputil archlinux transparency review