No Flint Database found at path ...

[Adam]

I've installed Xapian and Xabian-bindings for python and I keep getting this error.

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "manage.py", line 11, in <module>

execute_manager(settings)

File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/core/management/init.py", line 438, in execute_manager

utility.execute()

File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/core/management/init.py", line 379, in execute

self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)

File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 191, in run_from_argv

self.execute(*args, options.dict)

File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 218, in execute

output = self.handle(*args, options)

File "/home/webdev/web/virtualenvs/polaris/lib/python2.5/site-packages/djapian/management/commands/index.py", line 168, in handle

rebuild(verbose, per_page, commit_each)

File "/home/webdev/web/virtualenvs/polaris/lib/python2.5/site-packages/djapian/management/commands/index.py", line 130, in rebuild

indexer.update(None, after_index, per_page, commit_each)

File "/home/webdev/web/virtualenvs/polaris/lib/python2.5/site-packages/djapian/indexer.py", line 223, in update

database = self._db.open(write=True)

File "/home/webdev/web/virtualenvs/polaris/lib/python2.5/site-packages/djapian/database.py", line 20, in open

xapian.DB_CREATE_OR_OPEN,

File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/xapian.py", line 2804, in init

_xapian.WritableDatabase_swiginit(self,_xapian.new_WritableDatabase(*args))

xapian.DatabaseOpeningError: No flint database found at path `/home/webdev/web/virtualenvs/polaris/polaris/djapian_db/djangobb_forum/post/djangobb_forum.index.postindexer'

[Richard Boulton]

After discussion on IRC: this was being caused by a permissions problem - the user which Django was running under didn't have permission to create files in the specified directory.

Also, the error message should be clearer with 1.2: under a 1.2 release, the error message would have been of the form:

DatabaseLockError: Unable to get write lock on <dir>: Couldn't open lockfile: Permission denied