I had the same problem.
As a nonroot user fgfs would error;
"Unable to open aircraft directory"
Thanks for the strace hint.
I found in the Aircraft directory. The following
directories had the wrong permissions.
Spitfire
Spitfire/Sounds
Spitfire/Models
Group and user were not allowed to read.
Later, Paul
--- Sid Boyce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jeremy Johnson wrote:
> > SimGear-0.3.7
> > FlightGear-0.9.6
> > In linux as a normal user I get the following
> error message
> >
> > user:~$ fgfs --show-aircraft
> > Unable to open aircraft directory.
> >
> > But as root:
> > root:~# fgfs --show-aircraft
> >
> > Available aircraft:
> > 737 Boeing 737
> > 747 Boeing 747 (YASim)
> > 747-100 Boeing 747-100
> (JSBSim)
> > <--cut-->
> >
> > All the files in /usr/shre/FlightGear seem to be
> readable by all:
> >
> > user:~$ ls -l /usr/share | grep FlightGear
> > drwxr-xr-x 29 root root 4096 Nov 7 23:53
> FlightGear
> >
> > user:~$ ls -l /usr/share/FlightGear | grep
> Aircraft
> > drwxr-xr-x 44 root root 4096 Nov 7 23:24
> Aircraft
> >
> > Also I get the following segmentation faults with
> various splash screen errors
> >
> > user:~$ fgfs
> > Object PanelInstruments not found
> > Object ControlsGroup not found
> > Error in loading splash screen
> > texture /usr/share/FlightGear/Textures/Splash5.rgb
> > Segmentation fault
> >
> > user:~$ fgfs
> > Object PanelInstruments not found
> > Object ControlsGroup not found
> > Error in loading splash screen
> > texture /usr/share/FlightGear/Textures/Splash2.rgb
> > Segmentation fault
> >
> > user:~$ fgfs
> > Object PanelInstruments not found
> > Object ControlsGroup not found
> > Error in loading splash screen
> > texture /usr/share/FlightGear/Textures/Splash4.rgb
> > Segmentation fault
> >
> > user:~$ fgfs
> > Object PanelInstruments not found
> > Object ControlsGroup not found
> > Error in loading splash screen
> > texture /usr/share/FlightGear/Textures/Splash5.rgb
> > Segmentation fault
> >
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> >
> I'm seeing similar, but I haven't yet got around to
> running it with
> strace to see where it's looking for stuff. I used
> to see the splash
> screen, then it would segfault, now I only see the
> outline of the splash
> screen, the morse code beeps are just an incoherent
> string of dits.
> # fgfs
> Object PanelInstruments not found
> Object ControlsGroup not found
> Segmentation fault
>
> Regards
> Sid.
> --
> Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer
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