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[Samuel Merritt <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2/5/13 9:04 AM, Guillaume Hilt wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I installed swift on Ubuntu 12.04 AMD64 following this howto:
> http://docs.openstack.org/developer/swift/howto_installmultinode.html
>
> However, although the storage nodes work fine, I can't start the proxy
> node :
> Feb  5 18:00:06 srv13 proxy-server UNCAUGHT EXCEPTION Traceback (most
> recent call last):   File "/usr/bin/swift-proxy-server", line 22, in
> <module>     run_wsgi(conf_file, 'proxy-server', default_port=8080,
> **options)   File
> "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/swift/common/wsgi.py", line 125, in
> run_wsgi     capture_stdio(logger)   File
> "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/swift/common/utils.py", line 499, in
> capture_stdio     with open(os.devnull, 'r+b') as nullfile: IOError:
> [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/dev/null'
>
> /dev# ll null
> crw-r--r-- 1 root root 1, 3 Jan 25 17:43 null

Looks like something screwed up the permissions on your /dev/null. It 
should be world-writable (mode 0666).