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Yahoo Messanger, wierd problem
I am using Mandrake 10.0 official
I installed rh9.ymessenger-1.0.4-1.i386.rpm It installed easy with no problem. But when I go to start it, it hangs and then closes. It doesn't work. Now here is the strange part. I can use it fine logged in as root, but thats it. So I tried changing permissions in opt and the yahoo directories(sub-directories and files,) but nothing. So I tried the same for my /home/webwolf folder thinking that maybe there was some files or something that yahoo installed there and couldn'r access. Still nothing. Anyone have this problem or know what the problem may be? I do not want to be connected to the internet as root just so I can use yahoo. GAIM doesn't seem to work with the new yahoo and I can't stand kopete. Thanks.
hi there
the problem u r facing is because of the fact hat u r using rpm packages
rpm packages are precompiled for the disrribution u r using
so the rpm packahge u have is pecompiled for redhat 9.0 an so that may not work for u
so u need the rpm for ur linux or the source which u need to compile in ur machine
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I tried an older version and I am having some dependicy problems. So I went to the newer one, that I mentioned above, and it installed fine, it works great in root, but not as a normal user. I am thinking that there is a file or two it is trying to access that needs to have the permissions changed. I just don't know what one or where it would be.
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Originally posted by XavierP I'd suggest that you start it by issuing the command in a terminal and see what errors it throws up.
No correct me if I am wrong. In konsole all you have to do is type in /opt/ymessenger/bin/ymessenger.desktop or cd into that directory and type in ymessenger.desktop. I did it both as user an as root. It is telling me permission denied. But I can still click on the icon in root and it works fine. Is there another list of commands I can use. I tried --help in konsole but didn't get anything I could use, at least I don't think so. Or is there something here at LQ about konsole commands. I'll check the last part out now.
If you run "top", is it still running? I wonder if maybe it hasn't shut down cleanly. When it says permission denied, does it give any more info, like a number or which bit is denied?
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Originally posted by XavierP If you run "top", is it still running? I wonder if maybe it hasn't shut down cleanly. When it says permission denied, does it give any more info, like a number or which bit is denied?
I checked top and yahoo is not running. This is what I don't get. Why can I click on the icon in root and it works, but when I run this in konsole logged in as root and it says permission denied. I think I may be misisng something, probably obvious and small, lol.
When I try and run this in konsole this is all I get:
bash: /opt/ymessenger/bin/ymessenger.desktop: Permission denied
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Originally posted by pongmaster
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$ ymessenger
Should be all you need to get it up and running as a user.
I've never dallied about with a ymessenger.desktop file...
My permissions are all read and write for group, user and other.
I typed this in at konsole, ymessenger, opposed to ymessenger.desktop, and this is what I got: "Segmentation fault"
I did it in konsole as su and it works. Is there going to be any security issues if I do it this way. I am not logged in as root, I am only stating yahoo this way. I still don't know why I would have to.
You could also run strace to figure out what's going on. Eg.
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$ strace -o yahoo.trace ymessenger
Basically yahoo.trace is just a text file of all the system calls ymessenger makes. Based on the information you've provided you're bound to see a 'permission denied' error in here. The file can get rather large very quickly.
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Originally posted by XavierP When you installed it, did you log in as root to install, or use su? Silly question, have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling?
Yep, yep and yep, lol.
I installed it with Mandrake, konsole and logged in as root. I uninstalled it several times and tried re-installing it. Still the same thing happens. My guess is that it needs a file or two it put somewhere that has restricted access. I just don't know what or where it is. I wonder if they are trying to find ways to get spy-ware into linux, lol and the only way you can run it is as root
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Originally posted by whizzit How far does the program get before crashing?
You could also run strace to figure out what's going on. Eg.
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$ strace -o yahoo.trace ymessenger
Basically yahoo.trace is just a text file of all the system calls ymessenger makes. Based on the information you've provided you're bound to see a 'permission denied' error in here. The file can get rather large very quickly.
Regards
I typed in strace -o yahoo.trace ymessenger as user, it did something then went back to the command line. It didn't show any messages, etc. I tried it as su and it start yahoo messenger up.
Edit: Also when I try and start yahoo messanger as user, not root, the icon bounces and it says it is starting, it hangs and then closes.
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