Missleading error meassage when settingsPath can not be accessed

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Reported by: daschuer
Date: 2016-12-15T09:19:54Z
Status: Triaged
Importance: Medium
Launchpad Issue: lp1650190
Tags: easy

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When there are no write permissions in the setting path given by "mixxx --settingsPath", Mixxx is complaining that it can not establish a database connection.
This is missleading. Instead it should complain about the settingsPath permissions.

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Commented by: nimitbhardwaj
Date: 2016-12-21T07:25:53Z

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I have found the cause of the bug, now I am solving it, its cause is in src/library/trackcollection.cpp , this happens in the constructor, which calls the open function, and results in unfaithful error message, I am going to fix it

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Commented by: sblaisot
Date: 2016-12-21T16:27:17Z

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I don't think it should complain about settingspath not being writable.
It should complain about not being able to create the database file (with a user-friendly "unable to write database file to settingspath/database.sql" instead of "unable to establish a connection to database".

Trying to write to the settings path once, then relying on the result of this test to assume later it will stay writable during the whole mixxx session is imho a misconception.

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Commented by: sblaisot
Date: 2016-12-21T16:31:49Z

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don't forget that settingspath is usually in $HOME and historically UNIX $HOME can be an NFS share whose ability to write in depends on network availability. Not a common setup for home desktops, but thinking of it this way leads you to appropriate way to handle this.

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Commented by: nimitbhardwaj
Date: 2016-12-23T19:11:16Z

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Fix at #1086

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Commented by: rryan
Date: 2018-09-20T18:16:00Z

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Due to lack of progress, marking Triaged and clearing assignee. Feel
free to revert if it is in fact still in progress :).

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Commented by: ronso0
Date: 2022-05-21T11:52:33Z

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the error message is still an issue, see lp:1973401