ERROR: Couldn't create $HOME/.irssi directory

[joekendal]

$ irssi
** (irssi:14528): ERROR **: <timestamp>: Couldn't create $HOME/.irssi directory
Trace/breakpoint trap (core dumped)

I can manually bypass this error however:

$ mkdir $HOME/.irssi

[dequis]

Why did you close this? Did you figure it out?

[joekendal]

@dequis the SSL timeouts were caused by my firewall. The error creating the irssi directory was only resolved by manually creating the .irssi folder. But still this is strange that it cannot do so by the program itself, so is maybe a bug that should be looked into. For reference, I encountered this bug on Ubuntu 18.04 with the upstream irssi release

[bmeh]

The core dump file could be useful. To find out which directory it is being dumped to: cat /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern.

[dequis]

Quoting myself on #925:

IMO we'll never know what happened there, and it's not very important either, but for the next time we can show the actual reason the mkdir failed.

The fact that it aborts and generates coredump is a bit awkward but g_error really is the handiest way to show this sort of thing and quit, so that's fine I think.

So, closing this. If it ever happens again we'll know why.