root can run lyx, but non-root user cannot (Fedora 7)

2007-10-09 Thread Wolfgang Siebeck
Hi friends! The subject says it, I try to run lyx on fedora 7 (Linux .xxx.xx 2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 #1 SMP Wed May 23 22:35:01 EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux). It works perfectly when I run it as root or if I do a su. As normal user I get mangkhon:~ $ lyx terminate called after throwing an

Re: root can run lyx, but non-root user cannot (Fedora 7)

2007-10-09 Thread Wolfgang Siebeck
Teo Fonrouge wrote: > There is a good chance that this is a SELinux problem, [...] > Set it to permissive or disabled. Thanks for the quick reply. But, no this seems to be no problem. I just verified that SELinux is disabled. Still puzzled, Wolfgang

Re: root can run lyx, but non-root user cannot (Fedora 7)

2007-10-10 Thread Wolfgang Siebeck
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes schrieb: > It seems that when some files are not readable, lyx crashes. This is > wrong of course. Could you try to run LyX under strace > strace lyx > and post the last few lines of output? This should give s the name of > the file/directory that caused a problem, and theref

Re: root can run lyx, but non-root user cannot (Fedora 7)

2007-10-10 Thread Wolfgang Siebeck
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > I think the culprit was actually: > >> stat64("/usr/lib/kde3/bin/lyx", 0xbfc34e10) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) Mmmh, on fedora 7 /usr/lib/kde3/bin is 0700 and root.root, in this directory there is only the subdir kdevelop, also 0700 and root.root I think I will