Hi Clayton,

Sorry for the late response.

On Sun, 28 Sep, 2008 at 08:27:47PM +0800, clayton wrote:
> Package: flickrfs
> Version: 1.3.9.1-8
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
> I just tried flickrfs for the first time. Out of the box, I got an 
> error:
> 
> fuse: failed to open /dev/fuse: Permission denied
> Please make sure that user is added to the fuse group.
> 
> I added myself to the fuse group, logged out, logged back in, and got 
> exactly the same error. As it turns out, /dev/fuse was only accessible 
> by root on my system:
> 
> crw-rw---- 1 root root 10, 229 2008-09-28 19:09 /dev/fuse
> 
> After changing the group to fuse:
> 
> crw-rw---- 1 root fuse 10, 229 2008-09-28 19:09 /dev/fuse
> 
> everything seems to work fine.

This was an old bug in fuse-utils, see:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=473545

> Versions of packages flickrfs depends on:
> ii  fuse-utils                  2.7.3-5      Filesystem in USErspace 
> (utilities

The bug was fixed in fuse 2.7.4-1 version.

Thanks,
Varun



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