Schooltool & Schoolbell won't run on Edubuntu (workstation) ?!

[Philipp Schröder]

Hi,

After installing schooltool (Version 0.11.2-1) with synaptic on
Edubuntu, I am slightly confused as to what comes next. There is no
"schooltool" icon in the 'Applications' menu. I try to start schooltool
from the console. Typing "school" and hitting the tab key for
autocomplete, I am offered two options:

schooltool
schooltool-rest-client

I decide to run 'schooltool'. Unfortunately, it won't run and I get the
following error message in the console:

$ schooltool
Reading configuration from /etc/schooltool/schooltool.conf
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/schooltool", line 18, in ?
    schooltool.main.StandaloneServer().main()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/schoolbell/app/main.py", line
477, in main
    self.setup(options)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/schoolbell/app/main.py", line
488, in setup
    "%(asctime)s %(message)s")
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/schoolbell/app/main.py", line
279, in setUpLogger
    handler = UnicodeFileHandler(filename)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/schoolbell/app/main.py", line
255, in __init__
    stm = StreamWrapper(open(filename, 'a'))
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/schooltool/error.log'

I try to have a look at the mentioned 'error.log', but it's just an
empty file... Since the console error message says something about
'Permission denied', I take a guess that I must run 'schooltool' as a
root user.

$ sudo schooltool
Password:
Reading configuration from /etc/schooltool/schooltool.conf
Warning: font directory '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts' does
not exist.
PDF support disabled.
Could not initialize the database:
[Errno 11] Resource temporarily unavailable

Perhaps another SchoolTool instance is using it?

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I run into the same problems with Schoolbell (Version 1.2.2-1) too.
(Tested on an up-to-date Edubuntu, workstation install, AMD64).

Greetings, Philipp

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Philipp Schroeder
DIN15 / Information Architecture & Interaction Design
www.din15.org, philipp at din15.org