sigil and linux mint katya problem

[Suffolk Punch]

Hi!

I've installed Sigil 0.3.4 on Linux Mint Katya as follows:

sudo chmod +x Sigil-0.3.4-Linux-Setup.bin (makes the installation file executable)

sudo ./Sigil-0.3.4-Linux-Setup.bin (installs Sigil in /opt/sigil)

I get a sigil icon on my (non-root) desktop. But clicking on it doesn't run sigil. There's just a very brief flash like an outline box, then nothing!

But sigil does run if I open the desktop icon as administrator.

It seems the script the icon calls (/opt/sigil/sigil.sh ) requires root privileges.

Anyone know how to get sigil to run without root privileges?

Martin

[cuthbert19]

Try:

sudo chgrp -R users /opt/sigil
sudo chmod g+x /opt/sigil/sigil /opt/sigil/sigil.sh

This should work, provided that a group "users" is present on the system, and your user belongs to it. I don't have Mint here, so I can't either confirm it or suggest a more to the point solution.

[Suffolk Punch]

Thanks.

Still the same issue, I'm afraid. Just in case I did something dumb, here's what I did.

My username wasn't a member of group 'users', so I added it.
Then I ran the two commands you suggested.
The file permissions that resulted in are:

drwxr-xr-x 6 root users 4096 2011-06-09 11:37 sigil
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root users 585 2011-01-12 12:15 sigil.sh

Martin

[st_albert]

why not execute /opt/sigil/sigil.sh from a terminal, and see what error messages you get?

On my Debian system, installing as root, running as user, everything works as it should without tweaking.

[Suffolk Punch]

why not execute /opt/sigil/sigil.sh from a terminal, and see what error messages you get?

Ok - I get over a thousand lines of errors of which the following are the last few:

(<unknown>:4964): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: gdk_pixbuf_get_width: assertion `GDK_IS_PIXBUF (pixbuf)' failed

(<unknown>:4964): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: gdk_pixbuf_get_height: assertion `GDK_IS_PIXBUF (pixbuf)' failed

(<unknown>:4964): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Bug! loader 'png' didn't set an error on failure

(<unknown>:4964): Gtk-WARNING **: Error loading theme icon 'window-close' for stock: Internal error: Image loader module 'png' failed to complete an operation, but didn't give a reason for the failure

(<unknown>:4964): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

** (<unknown>:4964): CRITICAL **: murrine_style_draw_render_icon: assertion `base_pixbuf != NULL' failed

(<unknown>:4964): Gtk-CRITICAL **: IA__gtk_style_render_icon: assertion `pixbuf != NULL' failed

(<unknown>:4964): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: gdk_pixbuf_get_pixels: assertion `GDK_IS_PIXBUF (pixbuf)' failed

(<unknown>:4964): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: gdk_pixbuf_get_width: assertion `GDK_IS_PIXBUF (pixbuf)' failed

(<unknown>:4964): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: gdk_pixbuf_get_height: assertion `GDK_IS_PIXBUF (pixbuf)' failed
Segmentation fault
mjw@vm-mint-ufford ~/Desktop $

It must be a permisisons thing because Sigil works fine if I do

sudo /opt/sigil/sigil.sh

[roger64]

Hi

After installing the Sigil 0.4 Linux beta version on Debian (LMDE), I can launch Sigil as a plain user using the command: /opt/sigil/sigil.sh either from a launcher in the main menu, from Alt+F2 or from a terminal.

I can also open any EPUB directly with Sigil. To obtain it, I added in the Properties box the same personnalized command as given above.

Everything working.

I installed Sigil on /opt. (total space used 52.8 M)

[cuthbert19]

Originally Posted by Suffolk Punch

Thanks.

Still the same issue, I'm afraid. Just in case I did something dumb, here's what I did.

My username wasn't a member of group 'users', so I added it.

You have to exit your current session (you have to logout from the desktop, that is) and log in again, for the permission to be correctly applied. Try again this way, but I'm actually not confident in your success, because that "Segmentation fault" is a bit strange, especially since Sigil correctly runs when launched from the root user

[Suffolk Punch]

Ok - I've now got Sigil-0.4.0RC1-Linux-Setup.bin working.

I'm not really sure why it works for v 0.4 but not v 0.3.4!

I just repeated the two steps:

sudo chmod +x Sigil-0.4.0RC1-Linux-Setup.bin
sudo ./Sigil-0.4.0RC1-Linux-Setup.bin

As before, the install placed a Sigil icon (+ padlock) on the desktop and installed Sigil in /opt/sigil. But this time double-clicking on the desktop icon fires-up Sigil.

The only other stuff I did was install the Qt 4.7 package in a failed attempt to compile Sigil (the compile didn't work).

Anyway, all's well that ends well. And many thanks for your help guys!

Martin