Can't run links as non root user
When I try to run links in graphical mode I get the message:
svgalib: cannot get I/O permissions
How do I fix this?
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Quoted 5 lines · Robert
When I try to run links in graphical mode I get the message:
svgalib: cannot get I/O permissions
How do I fix this?
It is difficult to say without more information. I assume you are referring to the Web browser called "links" here, and under that assumption:
1. The Subject implies, but does not say, that the program runs properly if run by root. Is this correct?
2. Aa a non-root user, are you attempting to run links from a console, from an xterm, or from a remote connection (or some other way)? Whatever the methodm did you log in as the non-root user or su to it from a root login?
3. What does "ls -l /usr/bin/links" report? (Change the PATH if I have guessed wrong about where your system puts links.)
4. Is the non-root user account involved here a member of whatever group links is in (check tis in /etc/group, based on the results from #3 above).
5. Does anything infomative precede the svgalib message you quote?
6. What Linux distro and version are you using, and what kernel ("uname -a" for the last part)? There is no special reason for my asking this one; it is just baseline information that should always accompany a trouble report.
From the little you told us, the problem is with permissions, but exactly what permission is missing is unclear. So without the details, any specific suggestion is no more than a guess.
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Quoted 7 lines · Robert
When I try to run links in graphical mode I get the message:
svgalib: cannot get I/O permissions
How do I fix this?
http://www.svgalib.org/svgalib.user.faq.html#q8
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Quoted 3 lines · Robert
When I try to run links in graphical mode I get the message:
svgalib: cannot get I/O permissions
If you mean links, the console based Web browser, what version do you use? I am in 0.97 and there is no svgalib depedency and I'm curious to find out why links needs svgalib. Do they [links developers] have added any inline graphics support, such as the one w3m uses?
Elias
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Quoted 6 lines · On May 25 22:15 2003 Elias Athanasopoulos wrote:
Quoted 1 line · Robert
When I try to run links in graphical mode I get the
message:
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svgalib: cannot get I/O permissions
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If you mean links, the console based Web browser, what version do you use?
I am in 0.97 and there is no svgalib depedency and I'm curious to find out
why links needs svgalib. Do they [links developers] have added any inline
graphics support, such as the one w3m uses?
I don't know about dependencies, but I thought ``links'' had been superceded by ``elinks''? In any case, doing an ``rpm -q elinks'' gives me
Elinks 0.3.2 - Lynx-like text WWW browser
Yawar Amin
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