SikuliX

X-1.0rc2: Ubuntu: other users can't run sikuli-ide after first user did it --- workaround

Bug #754020 reported by Alex Prengel on 2011-04-07

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	SikuliX	In Progress	Low	RaiMan

Bug Description

**** the workaround from comment #4

Run this before starting sikuli from the command line...

mkdir libs

After starting Sikuli IDE, you should see some files in libs instead of /tmp/tmplib

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In Sikuli X 1.0rc2 on Ubuntu Lucid 64 bit and 32 bit systems, users logging in after a user who has run sikuli-ide and who try to run it also get error messages like:
[error] Can't load native lib JXGrabKey
java.io.FileNotFoundException: /tmp/tmplib/libJXGrabKey.so (Permission denied)

This is caused by Sikuli writing cache files below /tmp/tmplib that subsequent users don't have permission to access. Sikuli should either clean this up on exit or create separate cache directories for each username running it.

See original description

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RaiMan (raimund-hocke) wrote on 2011-04-08: Re: X-1.0rc2: Ubuntu: other users can't run sikuli-ide after first user did it

So why shouldn't that be in a users home directory?

summary:

- users logging in after first user can't run sikuli-ide
+ X-1.0rc2: Ubuntu: other users can't run sikuli-ide after first user did
+ it

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Alex Prengel (alexp) wrote on 2011-04-08: Re: [Bug 754020] Re: X-1.0rc2: Ubuntu: other users can't run sikuli-ide after first user did it

On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 03:37 -0400, RaiMan wrote:
> So why shouldn't that be in a users home directory?
>
> ** Summary changed:
>
> - users logging in after first user can't run sikuli-ide
> + X-1.0rc2: Ubuntu: other users can't run sikuli-ide after first user did it
>

That's fine with me. I just installed from
Sikuli-X-1.0rc2-linux-x86_64.zip and it set the cache to /tmp/tmplib/.

Alex

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RaiMan (raimund-hocke) wrote on 2011-04-09: Re: X-1.0rc2: Ubuntu: other users can't run sikuli-ide after first user did it

Ok, that was meant for the fix the developers have to make.

I suggest to take the users home directory as the temp location instead (like on Windows).

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niknah (hankin0) wrote on 2011-04-16:

Run this before starting sikuli from the command line...

mkdir libs

You should see some files in libs instead of /tmp/tmplib

This is in...
java/com/wapmx/nativeutils/jniloader/DefaultJniExtractor.java:getJniDir()

RaiMan (raimund-hocke) on 2011-04-16

summary:	X-1.0rc2: Ubuntu: other users can't run sikuli-ide after first user did - it + it --- workaround
description:	updated

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YeTr2 (yetr2quared) wrote on 2012-06-14:

Forget putting it in the user's directory, why can't we just load the files from the ./libs/ directory where they already exist instead of copying them?

I guess in the meantime I'll have to script around this issue.

also, what of /tmp/sikuli/ ? as we going to run into the same issue with sharing over this at some point?

RaiMan (raimund-hocke) on 2013-02-22