[issue8231] Unable to run IDLE without write-access to config directory

[Brian Curtin]

Brian Curtin <curtin at acm.org> added the comment:

I just reproduced this by removing write access from my user for my home directory.

It seems odd that you wouldn't have write access to your home directory in the first place, but that's tangent to the issue. I'll see if there are other acceptable locations to attempt to place the config directory.

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components: +Library (Lib)
nosy: +brian.curtin
priority:  -> normal
stage:  -> needs patch
title: Subprocess Startup Error - unable to create user config directory -> Unable to run IDLE without write-access to config directory
type: crash -> behavior

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