Mercurial > prosody-hg
changeset 14130:a957cd3ea4eb 13.0
util.startup: Improve error message when failing to load config file
The current error text always implied that the file is missing, but it could
also be a permissions issue, or something else.
Now it will handle those two cases, and show the error from the system
otherwise.
| author | Matthew Wild <mwild1@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| date | Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:50:23 +0100 |
| parents | 6da8b3db84de |
| children | 6c7549964d4d |
| files | util/startup.lua |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/util/startup.lua Thu Apr 16 18:49:04 2026 +0100 +++ b/util/startup.lua Thu Apr 16 18:50:23 2026 +0100 @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ else config.set_credential_fallback_mode("warn"); end - local ok, level, err = config.load(filename); + local ok, level, err, errno = config.load(filename); if not ok then print("\n"); print("**************************"); @@ -113,10 +113,26 @@ end print(""); elseif level == "file" then - print("Prosody was unable to find the configuration file."); - print("We looked for: "..filename); - print("A sample config file is included in the Prosody download called prosody.cfg.lua.dist"); - print("Copy or rename it to prosody.cfg.lua and edit as necessary."); + local err_kind; + if errno == 2 then + err_kind = "find"; + elseif errno == 13 then + err_kind = "access"; + else err_kind = "open"; + end + print(("Prosody was unable to %s the configuration file:"):format(err_kind)); + print(filename); + print(""); + if err_kind == "access" then + print(prosody.process_type.." does not have permission to open the file."); + print("Try running the command again as a user with permission to read the config file."); + elseif err_kind == "find" then + print("A sample config file is included in the Prosody download called prosody.cfg.lua.dist"); + print("Copy or rename it to "..filename.." and edit as necessary."); + else + print(err); + end + print(""); end print("More help on configuring Prosody can be found at https://prosody.im/doc/configure"); print("Good luck!");