xgnokii Please check permission on lock directory. Lock file error. Exiting Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.run xgnokii or gnokii as a normal user 2. 3. Actual Results: fails with a permissions error Expected Results: xgnokii or gnokii should run as a normal user emerge info Portage 2.0.51-r15 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r0, 2.6.10-gentoo-r7 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.10-gentoo-r7 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) processor Gentoo Base System version 1.6.9 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4 [2.3.4 (#1, Oct 23 2004, 18:09:24)] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.4, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.8.5-r3, 1.7.9-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r4 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-mtune=athlon-xp -march=athlon-xp -pipe -O2" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-mtune=athlon-xp -march=athlon-xp -pipe -O2" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig buildpkg ccache clean distcc distlocks fixpackages sandbox sfperms userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/" LANG="en_GB" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow 3dnowex X X509 a52 aac aalib acpi acpi4linux aim alsa apm arts artworkextra audiofile avantgo avi bash-completion berkdb bidi bitmap-fonts bluetooth bonobo bootsplash cddb cdparanoia cdr chroot codecs crypt css ctype cups dga dhcp dio directfb divx4linux dts dvb dvd dvdr dvdread eds encode esd ethereal evo exif ext-zlib extensions f77 fam fame fbcon fftw flac font-server foomaticdbfortran freetype gd gdbm gif gimp gimpprint gmail gnokii gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal icq idea ieee1394 imagemagick imlib imlib2 innodb ipv6 irda irmc ithreads jabber java joystick jp2 jpeg jpeg2k junit justify kde kdexdeltas ldap libg++ libwww live lm_sensors lzo lzw-tiff mad mikmod mime mmx mmx2 mng monkey motif mozcalendar mozp3p mozsvg mozxmlterm mpeg msn mysql nas ncursesnetwork nls no-old-linux nocd nptl nvidia offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl opie oscar oss pam pcap pcre pda pdflib perl pic pie png postgres pthreads python qt quicktime rdesktop readline real ruby samba sblive scanner sdl silc skey slang smime sms snmp sockets sox speedo speex spell sse ssl svg svga t1lib tcltk tcpd test tga theora threads tiff transcode truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb usepackagedmakefiles userlocales uudeview v4l v4l2 vim-with-x wifi wmf xanim xine xml xml2 xmms xosd xprint xscreensaver xv xvid xvmc yahoo zlib zvbi linguas_en_GB" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS
Please set proper permissions on /var/lock directory (you must have w) and tell me if this solved your problem.
Setting /var/lock to be writable by the user does fix this but would it not make more sense to have the application write its lock file in the users home directory? On a multi user system /var/lock would have to be world writable which could be a security risk.
Another issue with gnokki and xgnokii seems to be the amount of memory and cpu it uses. I have 1gb of memory and it will use it all with around a gb of swap space pushing the cpu usage through the roof.
I didn't say to set /var/lock world writable. I've suggested to have w right in this dir. The best way is to be member in uucp group (or whatever group is set on this dir). The whole idea of locking mechanism is to make a specific resource globally unavailable for other applications, either if you lauch them or another user. If you set lock dir to be $HOME dependent, you loose the global efect, doesn't it? You could set "use_locking = no", you know... As for the second issue, I've just launched xgnokii on a lousy notebook with 256M. With xfce, xgnokii, firefox and thunderbird running, memory used is insignificant (a quarter of the entire physical memory).
