* David E. Marshall <[email protected]> [05-23-11 19:18]: > thanks for the ideas. > > I don't think this is a problem with the systems, or picasa for that > matter - but rather an issue how pacasa runs. We have 20 other > software that work OK... Mathematica, Matlab etc... All users belong > to the group "domain users". > > for instance this is a user home dir: > > drwx------ 49 dem1 domain users 4096 2011-05-20 15:07 dem1 > > My guess is that the user you are running as belongs to the "linux > video" group on your system. i do not know how to add a domain group > to the local video group... which I think will fix the problem. > > The fix suggested by the error pop up when you start pacasa > > "chmod 666 /dev/nvidia0 /dev/nvidia1": > > Works when run as root and lets the logged in user run pacasa - but a > simple log out and back in changes the > them back to 660. > > Thanks for the help thinking about my problem. > > Dave/ > > > On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Patrick Shanahan <[email protected]> > wrote: > > * 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. > > > > > > -- > 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.
He does belong to the group "video". Have you considered "ssh -Y" and running picasa remotely. This way you could always run as the same user, or as a user who belongs to group "video". -- (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.
