* David E. Marshall <[email protected]> [05-23-11 16:28]: > We find that two files in /dev: > > crw-rw---- 1 root video 195, 0 May 19 14:08 nvidia0 > crw-rw---- 1 root video 195, 255 May 19 14:08 nvidiactl > > are causing the picasa error:
which you mentioned, but out of context :^) you *do* have a problem, ll /dev/nvid* crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 195, 0 May 23 09:22 /dev/nvidia0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 195, 255 May 23 09:22 /dev/nvidiactl > "/dev/nvidia0 pr /dev/nvidiact1 are not accessible. Picasa will crash > if these files are not accessible. To fix this, as root, please run: > chmod 666 /dev/nvidia0 /dev/nvidia1" > > If you su to root and make the change as suggested - picasa will start > and run without error. > > If you log out and back in (as the same or a different user) the > files revert to 660 and we get the above error when picasa starts. > > All the suggested fixes that I can find we are unable to do. Ether > because the suggested file we should modify is no-existent in suse > 11.4 or because the fix did not fix the problem. well, something is amiss. Log in as a user and w/o running anything, check the perms then run: sudo SuSEconfig this should set system file perms to the correct values. you have set system file perms to: easy chk: yast2 -> security and users -> security center and hardening past that, I can only thing of two possibilities: win domain problem system is rooted. if *all* of your system exhibit this behavour, I would believe it is a "win domain problem". FLASH; I changed perms on my system to match yours and ran picasa as a normal user w/o a problem. Something else is causing your problems besides the perms (in addition to). I would guess your problem lies in the "win domain" access. > Computer are part of a win domain - we use winbind to authenticate. If > I could figure out how to add a win domain group to the linux "video" > group I think that would fix the problem - but as yet I don't see > how... I know neither ??? If I can help further... I am around :^) -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google-Labs-Picasa-for-Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-labs-picasa-for-linux?hl=en.
