[Live-demo] [OSGeo] #1636: QGIS Server fails to work after QGIS upgrade to 2.14 LTR

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#1636: QGIS Server fails to work after QGIS upgrade to 2.14 LTR
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 Reporter:  kalxas   |      Owner:  live-demo@…
     Type:  defect   |     Status:  new
 Priority:  major    |  Milestone:  Unplanned
Component:  LiveDVD  |   Keywords:  qgis server
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 QGIS 2.14.0 LTR was released few days ago.

 Since we are very close to the OSGeoLive 9.5 release I did not upgrade to
 it right away, rather I pulled the deb package to our staging ppa and re-
 built it to test.

 https://launchpad.net/~gcpp-kalxas/+archive/ubuntu/osgeolive/+packages

 Then I did a nightly build based on that staging ppa to see how things
 are.

 http://aiolos.survey.ntua.gr/gisvm/dev/osgeo-live-nightly-
 build168-amd64-e572448.iso

 QGIS Desktop works flawlessly.

 QGIS Server though fails to work due to this apache error:

 {{{
 [Sat Mar 05 09:33:10.320224 2016] [core:notice] [pid 5062] AH00094:
 Command line: '/usr/sbin/apache2'
 QFSFileEngine::open: No file name specified
 Warning 1: Unable to find driver ECW to unload from GDAL_SKIP environment
 variable.
 Warning 1: Unable to find driver ECW to unload from GDAL_SKIP environment
 variable.
 Warning 1: Unable to find driver JP2ECW to unload from GDAL_SKIP
 environment variable.
 Warning 1: Unable to find driver ECW to unload from GDAL_SKIP environment
 variable.
 Warning 1: Unable to find driver JP2ECW to unload from GDAL_SKIP
 environment variable.
 ERROR: Auth db directory path could not be created
 QFSFileEngine::open: No file name specified
 Warning 1: Unable to find driver ECW to unload from GDAL_SKIP environment
 variable.
 Warning 1: Unable to find driver ECW to unload from GDAL_SKIP environment
 variable.
 Warning 1: Unable to find driver JP2ECW to unload from GDAL_SKIP
 environment variable.
 Warning 1: Unable to find driver ECW to unload from GDAL_SKIP environment
 variable.
 Warning 1: Unable to find driver JP2ECW to unload from GDAL_SKIP
 environment variable.
 ERROR: Auth db directory path could not be created
 [Sat Mar 05 10:42:45.144576 2016] [fcgid:warn] [pid 5076] [client
 127.0.0.1:57996] mod_fcgid: error reading data, FastCGI server closed
 connection
 [Sat Mar 05 10:42:45.144604 2016] [core:error] [pid 5076] [client
 127.0.0.1:57996] End of script output before headers: qgis_mapserv.fcgi
 [Sat Mar 05 10:42:47.741248 2016] [fcgid:warn] [pid 5074] [client
 127.0.0.1:57995] mod_fcgid: error reading data, FastCGI server closed
 connection
 [Sat Mar 05 10:42:47.741266 2016] [core:error] [pid 5074] [client
 127.0.0.1:57995] End of script output before headers: qgis_mapserv.fcgi
 [Sat Mar 05 10:42:50.905775 2016] [fcgid:error] [pid 5065] mod_fcgid:
 process /usr/lib/cgi-bin/qgis_mapserv.fcgi(6447) exit(communication
 error), get signal 6, possible coredump generated
 [Sat Mar 05 10:42:50.905847 2016] [fcgid:error] [pid 5065] mod_fcgid:
 process /usr/lib/cgi-bin/qgis_mapserv.fcgi(6455) exit(communication
 error), get signal 6, possible coredump generated
 }}}

 I have been bugging the QGIS maintainers about this error for a few days:

 {{{
 ERROR: Auth db directory path could not be created
 }}}

 and this post seems relevant:

 http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-user/2015-October/034050.html

 I tried to create the QGIS_AUTH_DB_DIR_PATH in the FastCGI Apache
 configuration but no luck, the error persists...

 It would be nice for once to have the latest release of QGIS included in
 OSGeo-Live 9.5 since our release schedules synced :)

 Any suggestions/thoughts/pull requests are welcome...

 Best,
 Angelos

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