ipfs daemon --init does not work

[mitar]

Version information:

go-ipfs version: 0.4.6-
Repo version: 5
System version: amd64/linux
Golang version: go1.8

Type: Bug

Priority: P4

Description:

I am passing --init, but it does not do what is saying it will do, which is, initialize the repo:

$ export IPFS_PATH=/ipfs
$ /usr/local/bin/ipfs daemon --init
Initializing daemon...
Error: no IPFS repo found in /ipfs.
please run: 'ipfs init'

[whyrusleeping]

@mitar Thats odd... it works for me.
I was going to ask if it could be a permissions issue, but that prints out permission denied for me.

Does the /ifps folder contain anything?

[mitar]

It does not. You can do full reproduction using a Docker image:

$ docker run -d --name test-sgx tozd/sgx
$ docker exec -t -i test-sgx bash
$ wget -O - https://dist.ipfs.io/go-ipfs/v0.4.6/go-ipfs_v0.4.6_linux-amd64.tar.gz | tar zx --strip=1 -C /usr/local/bin go-ipfs/ipfs
$ mkdir /ipfs
$ export IPFS_PATH=/ipfs
$ ipfs daemon --init
Initializing daemon...
Error: no IPFS repo found in /ipfs.
please run: 'ipfs init'

[whyrusleeping]

@mitar ah, ipfs init assumes that the directory youre giving it does not already exist.

[mitar]

Oh, but for ipfs init there is no such assumption. It just checks that the directory is empty. So this works:

mkdir -p /ipfs
export IPFS_PATH=/ipfs
ipfs init --empty-repo || true
ipfs daemon --migrate --enable-gc --enable-pubsub-experiment

But this does not:

mkdir -p /ipfs
export IPFS_PATH=/ipfs
ipfs daemon --init --migrate --enable-gc --enable-pubsub-experiment

It is not really possible inside Docker for a directory to not exist, because in practice I am mounting external volume to /ipfs. So it exists because Docker puts a volume there.

BTW, having --init-empty would be great for daemon.

[whyrusleeping]

Ah interesting. Thats a weird discrepancy. Lets make sure the --init flag on the daemon has the same exact behaviour as ipfs init

[kevina]

I will look into this today.

[kevina]

#3805 should fix it.