Merge pull request #85 from learningequality/defuse-the-bomb

Catch permission errors creating the (unused?) app files dir, because it blows up Android
learningequality · Jul 30, 2021 · a43b211 · a43b211
2 parents cc4a96c + 1b2e403
commit a43b211
Showing 1 changed file with 5 additions and 3 deletions.
diff --git a/src/main.py b/src/main.py
@@ -92,9 +92,11 @@ def flush(self):
 KOLIBRI_ROOT_URL = 'http://localhost:{}'.format(KOLIBRI_PORT)
 os.environ["DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE"] = "kolibri.deployment.default.settings.base"
 
-app_data_dir = pew.get_app_files_dir()
-os.makedirs(app_data_dir, exist_ok=True)
-
+try:
+    os.makedirs(pew.get_app_files_dir(), exist_ok=True)
+except PermissionError:
+    pass
+
 if not 'KOLIBRI_HOME' in os.environ:
     kolibri_home = os.path.join(os.path.expanduser("~"), ".kolibri")