/tmp/spyder is owned by the first user on the server to launch spyder

[spyder-bot]

From ericrose...@gmail.com on 2013-08-28T18:26:02Z

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What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. have multiple users run spyder
   1. the first user will own /tmp/spyder, the second user will get a permission denied error 3. What is the expected output? What do you see instead? each user should have a unique temporary directory in /tmp/, something like /tmp/spyder- would be a fix What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? latest stable, RHEL5

Please provide any additional information below

. here is the spyder_crash.log:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/adm/config/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/spyderlib/spyder.py", line 2135, in main
mainwindow = run_spyder(app, options, args)
File "/usr/local/adm/config/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/spyderlib/spyder.py", line 2030, in run_spyder
main.setup()
File "/usr/local/adm/config/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/spyderlib/spyder.py", line 793, in setup
self.extconsole = ExternalConsole(self, light_mode=self.light)
File "/usr/local/adm/config/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/spyderlib/plugins/externalconsole.py", line 524, in init
scientific = scientific_libs_available(executable)
File "/usr/local/adm/config/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/spyderlib/plugins/externalconsole.py", line 62, in scientific_libs_available
for m in mods]
File "/usr/local/adm/config/python/lib/python2.7/site-packages/spyderlib/utils/programs.py", line 230, in is_module_installed
fd, script = tempfile.mkstemp(suffix='.py', dir=TEMPDIR)
File "/usr/local/python/lib/python2.7/tempfile.py", line 293, in mkstemp
return _mkstemp_inner(dir, prefix, suffix, flags)
File "/usr/local/python/lib/python2.7/tempfile.py", line 228, in _mkstemp_inner
fd = _os.open(file, flags, 0600)
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/tmp/spyder/tmpBIaLC2.py'

Original issue: http://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/issues/detail?id=1539

[spyder-bot]

From ccordoba12 on 2013-09-04T11:48:11Z

Thanks for reporting. I'll fix it in our next release.

Labels: MS-v2.2.4

[spyder-bot]

From ccordoba12 on 2013-09-04T15:22:52Z

This issue was updated by revision 993ffa716d8f .

• This was preventing Spyder to run on multiuser Posix environments.

Status: Fixed