From: ShaoHe Feng <shaohef(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt; If a non-root/non-sudo user tries to run kimchid, it fails with the verbose stacktrace. This is not friendly to user. There should be a check for these cases, allowing kimchid to fail gracefully. Issue: https://github.com/kimchi-project/kimchi/issues/320 Signed-off-by: ShaoHe Feng <shaohef(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt; --- src/kimchi/server.py | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/kimchi/server.py b/src/kimchi/server.py index 6dd0404..f93b6ee 100644 --- a/src/kimchi/server.py +++ b/src/kimchi/server.py @@ -158,8 +158,13 @@ class Server(object): pass cherrypy.log.screen = True - cherrypy.log.access_file = options.access_log - cherrypy.log.error_file = options.error_log + try: + cherrypy.log.access_file = options.access_log + cherrypy.log.error_file = options.error_log + except IOError as e: + print e + print "Please run kimchi with root user" + exit() logLevel = LOGGING_LEVEL.get(options.log_level, logging.DEBUG) dev_env = options.environment != 'production'