OK, maybe it doesn't actually have feelings toward me either way, but its giving me grief.
I'm running Parallels Workstation 2.2RC under Kubuntu 6.06. I can only succesfully run it if I am root (or run it via sudo). As a regular user, when I try to run it, it blows up with a SIGSEGV.
I seem to have isolated it to libscim. It is in the backtrace. On two other systems, where I have no problems running PWS as a regular user, this library does not seem to exist. (One of them is Ubuntu Breezy running Gnome, the other is Fedora Core 5 running gnome). Just for grins and giggles, on my Kubuntu system I tried temporarily renaming the libscim library file with a .save extension. When I do that, PWS runs perfectly as a regular user, although standard output sees the occasional complaint about "libscim-1.0.so.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory". Despite the complaints, it doesn't appear to actually cause a problem.
So I thought about permanently removing the library, since it doesn't exist on my other two boxes, but obviously it's probably there for a reason. Turns out that according to apt-get there are lots of things that rely on this library, including "kubuntu-desktop". Hmm. That sounds important.
Any ideas what might be going wrong here? I can work around it, but I'd really prefer not to run this application as root.
Thanks,
Eric
I'm running Parallels Workstation 2.2RC under Kubuntu 6.06. I can only succesfully run it if I am root (or run it via sudo). As a regular user, when I try to run it, it blows up with a SIGSEGV.
I seem to have isolated it to libscim. It is in the backtrace. On two other systems, where I have no problems running PWS as a regular user, this library does not seem to exist. (One of them is Ubuntu Breezy running Gnome, the other is Fedora Core 5 running gnome). Just for grins and giggles, on my Kubuntu system I tried temporarily renaming the libscim library file with a .save extension. When I do that, PWS runs perfectly as a regular user, although standard output sees the occasional complaint about "libscim-1.0.so.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory". Despite the complaints, it doesn't appear to actually cause a problem.
So I thought about permanently removing the library, since it doesn't exist on my other two boxes, but obviously it's probably there for a reason. Turns out that according to apt-get there are lots of things that rely on this library, including "kubuntu-desktop". Hmm. That sounds important.
Any ideas what might be going wrong here? I can work around it, but I'd really prefer not to run this application as root.
Thanks,
Eric
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