keybase.kbfs not starting on Mac OS X
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Description
I yesterday download the binary release to play around with the filesystem. But it is not working. I keep getting these two messages in the system.log:
Jul 22 10:30:43 bgs-cool-greybook com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (keybase.kbfs[9485]): Service exited with abnormal code: 2
Jul 22 10:30:43 bgs-cool-greybook com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (keybase.kbfs): Service only ran for 0 seconds. Pushing respawn out by 10 seconds.
Don't know if this is the problem: I had two previous installations of keybase: one through npmand one through MacPorts. Both of them were uninstalled. The Folder /keybase already exists and dates from February (when I played with KeyBase). Don't remember if I created it or it was created by some program. Rights to that folder are
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 68 Feb 9 20:36 keybase
my log id: cf58777ee4cc226dde8e981c
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Start with the reported system.log messages and the provided log id, then reproduce the keybase.kbfs launch failure on Mac OS X. Check whether the existing /keybase directory, its permissions, or remnants of earlier npm and MacPorts installations are involved; done means the service starts without the abnormal exit and respawn messages.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- go, macos
- Domain
- operating-systems
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100