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Old 05-14-2015, 11:16 PM   #1
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Exclamation SpiderOak cannot start as normal user?


I installed the spideroak in ubunutu 15.04 when i start it as normal user get this error:
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$ SpiderOak
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 6, in <module>
File "__main__.py", line 128, in <module>
File "__main__SpiderOak__.py", line 24, in <module>
File "logging/__init__.py", line 911, in __init__
File "logging/__init__.py", line 936, in _open
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'/tmp/SpiderOak_startup.log'
cannot write as user it's log file in /tmp, when i start as root from a terminal it starting.
 
Old 05-15-2015, 02:01 AM   #2
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The spideroak was installed from the downloaded deb package from the spideroak offcial site i removed this and installed with the aptitude from ubuntu official repos problem solved.
 
  


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