Summary
This article discusses ways to resolve the error: com.palamida.workspace.WorkspaceException, when saving workspace settings.Symptoms
On saving workspace settings you receive the error:
With the message:
com.palamida.workspace.WorkspaceException An SQL data change is not permitted for a read-only connection, user, or database
And the error in the server logs:
Cannot acquire lock on workspace settings
Resolution
- Check available disk space on the scan server.
- Check permissions and ownership for
workspaceBaseDirPath(specified in scanEngine.properties). The workspace may have been created while Tomcat was started as root, but now Tomcat is not running under root.