Package: matrix-synapse Version: 1.12.4-1 Severity: normal I was trying to set up synapse and kept getting the error:
Starting matrix-synapse: matrix-synapseTLS certificate file not found ... failed! Turns out the synapse.config does not like certain files being missing, or an invalid database configuration: /usr/bin/python3 -m synapse.config read tls_certificate_file --config-path ... Unsupported database type 'psycopg3' This was my own fault for making a typo in the configuration. However, after fixing that I got this: Error accessing file '/etc/matrix-synapse/homeserver.signing.key' (config for signing_key): No such file or directory The init.d script redirects the output of the config command to /dev/null and only uses the return value, so it will complain about missing TLS certificates and the user will never see the actual error. The latter error seems to be a catch 22 in the synapse.config module. If the signing key does not exist, you can't retrieve its path to check if it exists and create it if it doesn't. -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.4.35-core2-server (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages matrix-synapse depends on: ii adduser 3.118 ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.74 ii libjs-jquery 3.5.1+dfsg-3 ii libpython3-stdlib 3.8.2-3 ii lsb-base 11.1.0 ii python3 3.8.2-3 ii python3-attr 19.3.0-4 ii python3-bcrypt 3.1.7-3 ii python3-bleach 3.1.5-2 ii python3-canonicaljson 1.1.4-3 ii python3-daemonize 2.4.7-4 ii python3-distutils 3.8.2-2 ii python3-frozendict 1.2-2 ii python3-idna 2.9-1 ii python3-jinja2 2.11.1-1 ii python3-jsonschema 3.2.0-3 ii python3-lxml 4.5.0-1.1 ii python3-msgpack 0.6.2-1+b1 ii python3-nacl 1.3.0-5 ii python3-netaddr 0.7.19-4 ii python3-openssl 19.1.0-2 ii python3-phonenumbers 8.12.1-1 ii python3-pil 7.0.0-4+b1 ii python3-prometheus-client 0.7.1-1.1 ii python3-pyasn1 0.4.2-4 ii python3-pyasn1-modules 0.2.1-1 ii python3-pymacaroons 0.13.0-3 ii python3-service-identity 18.1.0-6 ii python3-signedjson 1.1.0-1 ii python3-six 1.14.0-3 ii python3-sortedcontainers 2.1.0-2 ii python3-systemd 234-3+b2 ii python3-treq 18.6.0-0.2 ii python3-twisted 18.9.0-11 ii python3-typing-extensions 3.7.4.2-1 ii python3-unpaddedbase64 1.1.0-5 ii python3-yaml 5.3.1-2 Versions of packages matrix-synapse recommends: ii python3-psycopg2 2.8.5-1 Versions of packages matrix-synapse suggests: pn python3-txacme <none> -- Configuration Files: /etc/matrix-synapse/homeserver.yaml [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/matrix-synapse/homeserver.yaml' -- debconf information excluded
