Re: OpenOffice crashes due to incorrect access permissions on /dev/dri/card*

["Trever L. Adams" <tadams-lists@myrealbox.com>]

My problem is some things changed in the installed package changed and
some things in my home directory in .openoffice (setup and soffice) were
incorrect. I erased the symlinks and my problem is over.  I would
suggest others having problems try the same. This may have NOTHING to do
with the kernel (as in my case).

Trever

On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 12:57 -0700, Trever L. Adams wrote:
> For the record, this has nothing to do with my crash. Mine still crashes
> all the time if I try to save a new document.
> 
> Trever
> 
> On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 14:25 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote:
> > On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 13:02:51 +0000, Richard Hughes <ee21rh@surrey.ac.uk> wrote:
> > > On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 12:49:16 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > > > Note, that strace glxgears gives exactly the same output, going from 0 to
> > > > 14 and then seg-faulting, so it's *not just a oo problem*.
> > > 
> > > I know it's bad to answer your own post, but here goes.
> > > 
> > > I changed my /etc/udev/permissions.d/50-udev.permissions config to read:
> > > 
> > > dri/*:root:root:0666
> > > 
> > > changing it from
> > > 
> > > dri/*:root:root:0660
> > > 
> > > And oowriter and glxgears work from bootup. Shall I file a bug with udev?
> > 
> > Your user ID needs to belong to group DRI.
> > 
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