[Pkg-matrix-maintainers] Bug#920339: matrix-synapse: installation process hangs with unknown reason

[Andrej Shadura]

On Mon, 18 Mar 2019 at 13:09, Peter Gervai <grin at grin.hu> wrote:
>
> Package: matrix-synapse
> Version: 0.99.2-2
> Followup-For: Bug #920339
>
> Still exists in the recent version. It seems that the server is spawned and
> disowned, and the configure script waits forever for some return value which never
> comes.

I tried to reproduce it with sysvinit and still failed :(

> Also this output is not really happy:
>
> Setting up matrix-synapse (0.99.2-2) ...
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/lib/python3.7/runpy.py", line 193, in _run_module_as_main
>     "__main__", mod_spec)
>   File "/usr/lib/python3.7/runpy.py", line 85, in _run_code
>     exec(code, run_globals)
>   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/synapse/config/__main__.py", line 31, in <module>
>     print(getattr(config, key))
> AttributeError: 'HomeServerConfig' object has no attribute 'signing_key_path'
> chown: missing operand after 'matrix-synapse:nogroup'
> Try 'chown --help' for more information.
> chmod: missing operand after '0600'
> Try 'chmod --help' for more information.

Oh, I fscked up the init script. Should have tested it better.

-- 
Cheers,
  Andrej