Re: gitk doesn't work w/o sudo.
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Dilip M <dilipm79@gmail.com>
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- Jan 20, 2009, 18:20 UTC
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On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> 'd try running it with strace, and then search the output for stat() > calls involving <something>/.git.
Seems like we are almost there....here is the log..
dm-laptop:~/repos/atria> grep gitk /tmp/gitk_1.log execve("/usr/bin/gitk", ["/usr/bin/gitk"], [/* 37 vars */]) = 0 open("/usr/bin/gitk", O_RDONLY) = 3 execve("/usr/bin/wish8.4", ["/usr/bin/wish8.4", "/usr/bin/gitk", "--"], [/* 37 vars */]) = 0 stat("/usr/bin/gitk", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=237778, ...}) = 0 open("/usr/bin/gitk", O_RDONLY) = 6 lstat("/usr/share/gitk", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 lstat("/usr/share/gitk/lib", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 lstat("/usr/share/gitk/lib/msgs", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 access("/usr/share/gitk/lib/msgs/en_in.msg", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) <====== lstat("/usr/share/gitk", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 lstat("/usr/share/gitk/lib", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 lstat("/usr/share/gitk/lib/msgs", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 access("/usr/share/gitk/lib/msgs/en.msg", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) <====== stat("/home/dm/.gitk", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=683, ...}) = 0 open("/home/dm/.gitk", O_RDONLY) = 6 writev(5, [{"\22\0\7\0\16\0@\3\'\0\0\0\37\0\0\0\10NG\0\4\0\0\0gitk\20"..., 48}], 1) = 48 writev(5, [{"\22\0\7\0\16\0@\3(\1\0\0\37\1\0\0\10AME\4\0\0\0gitk\22"..., 112}], 1) = 112
dm-laptop:~/repos/atria> ls -l /usr/share/gitk/lib/msgs/en_in.msg ls: cannot access /usr/share/gitk/lib/msgs/en_in.msg: No such file or directory
But how is it working when I do 'sudo'..
-- DM