I’m using opensuse 13.1 and X plane version 10.30. I initially as a beginner linux user made /usr/local partition, and installed X plane as SU. Bad idea! My question is, can I use Yast to reformat that partition, and make a /Media with user permissions? I would just reload all of X plane 10.30. there may be other information needed just ask I’ll check back.
Thanks
bigtrains67
On Mon, 13 Oct 2014 19:46:01 +0000, bigtrains67 wrote:
> I’m using opensuse 13.1 and X plane version 10.30. I initially as a
> beginner linux user made /usr/local partition, and installed X plane as
> SU. Bad idea! My question is, can I use Yast to reformat that partition,
> and make a /Media with user permissions? I would just reload all of X
> plane 10.30. there may be other information needed just ask I’ll check
> back.
There’s no need to reformat the partition - you can put it in /usr/local
if you want, and it should work fine, but with X-Plane, I usually just
install it to my home directory and run it from there.
Jim
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There’s no need to reformat the partition - you can put it in /usr/local
if you want, and it should work fine, but with X-Plane, I usually just
install it to my home directory and run it from there.
Jim
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I have that partition free with 105 gigs on it i just wanted it for the size. So the only choices in YAST partitioner were /usr, /tmp/ /srv. I’m having a problem with it wanting to load only through Super User. How do I load it so I can access without Super User?
On Tue, 14 Oct 2014 16:16:02 +0000, bigtrains67 wrote:
> I have that partition free with 105 gigs on it i just wanted it for the
> size. So the only choices in YAST partitioner were /usr, /tmp/ /srv. I’m
> having a problem with it wanting to load only through Super User. How do
> I load it so I can access without Super User?
The proper way to do it would be to change the ownership on the files to
set the “users” group as the owner, and then make sure the group execute
flag is set on the executable, and all of the files were group readable
(which they should be, by default, in most configurations).
If you change into the directory that it’s installed into, what’s the
output from:
ls -l
?
Jim
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Jim this is what ls -l brings up in /usr/local
thanks for your help. It was working only in SU, but after the .30 update it broke.
/usr/local # ls -l
total 22512
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 4 2014 bin
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Apr 4 2014 lib
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Mar 21 2014 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Mar 25 2012 OpenSceneryX Installer
-rw-r–r-- 1 root root 2126491 Apr 4 2014 overlayeditor-2.48-1.noarch.rpm
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Apr 4 2014 share
drwx------ 4 root root 4096 Apr 8 2014 .Trash-0
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 12786088 Nov 10 2013 WED
drwxrwxrwx+ 19 root root 4096 Sep 21 09:03 X-Plane 10
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root root 8091761 Feb 12 2013 X-Plane 10 Installer Linux
Jim this is what happen if i try to make change to X-Plane 10 directory.
chown -R <myusername> /usr/local/X-plane 10
chown: cannot access ‘/usr/local/X-plane’: No such file or directory
chown: cannot access ‘10’: No such file or directory
thanks again
On Thu, 16 Oct 2014 17:06:01 +0000, bigtrains67 wrote:
> Jim this is what happen if i try to make change to X-Plane 10
> directory.
>
>
> chown -R <myusername> /usr/local/X-plane 10 chown: cannot access
> ‘/usr/local/X-plane’: No such file or directory chown: cannot access
> ‘10’: No such file or directory
>
> thanks again
You need to either escape the space in the directory name or enclose it
in quotes - that should get you going. 
Jim
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I have some how broke my root log in password. In terminal I type su and my <password> now I get authentication failure. :’( I think some where i changes permission on a directory maybe that I shouldn’t have?
Thanks for your help.
sudo zypper ref
sudo: /usr/bin/sudo must be owned by uid 0 and have the setuid bit set
this is what I get if i try to use my user <password> in terminal
hope this helps.
Ok this is fixed! i did :)chkstat --set --system
But Yast is still not letting me get in with root password.
Thanks.
All is fixed and back to normal. Thanks for your help Jim, now I’m going to do a fresh install and fly!!
On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 00:06:01 +0000, bigtrains67 wrote:
> All is fixed and back to normal. Thanks for your help Jim, now I’m going
> to do a fresh install and fly!!
Glad you got it fixed - good luck with the fresh installation.
Jim
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OK, this is embarrassing! :sarcastic:
X-Plane-x86-64 and X-Plane-i386 will not start. The fresh install did not help. Both airfoil maker and plane maker will start. All I want to do is be able to start this program in my user and not SU. Which I can’t do in either now. I believe all the permissions are correct. Thanks for any help.
Jon
On Sun, 19 Oct 2014 22:06:01 +0000, bigtrains67 wrote:
> OK, this is embarrassing! :sarcastic:
> X-Plane-x86-64 and X-Plane-i386 will not start. The fresh install did
> not help. Both airfoil maker and plane maker will start. All I want to
> do is be able to start this program in my user and not SU. Which I can’t
> do in either now. I believe all the permissions are correct. Thanks for
> any help.
>
> Jon
When you try to start them, what error message do you get in the terminal
window?
Jim
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Jim
To answer your question I wasn’t getting any error messages, just nothing was happening.
after some research, which is difficult, because there is not much out about X-Planes. I did this and it worked.
"openSUSE 13.1 (Bottle) (x86_64) two solutions :
sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/libudev.so.1.4.0 /usr/lib64/libudev.so.0
There is also a libudev0 in the repo which can be installed beside libudev1.
Recommended is the second."
Everything seems fine. The loader will not continue loading disks 2-8?? so i’m limited on DSF files. out of the box scenery pretty much. Thats my next hurtle load the rest of the scenery.
Thanks
Jon
On Mon, 20 Oct 2014 15:16:03 +0000, bigtrains67 wrote:
> Everything seems fine. The loader will not continue loading disks
> 2-8??
> so i’m limited on DSF files. out of the box scenery pretty much.
> Thats my next hurtle load the rest of the scenery.
To do this, after you’ve run the installation from the disc, run the
installer from the installation directory and select the additional
scenery you want. You should be prompted for the additional discs, and
should also be able to eject them to insert the requested disc.
You may need to manually mount the disc before it can be accessed.
I’ve not tried 10.x yet - I only have X-Plane 9 myself (I really need to
get the upgrade now that I have a system that can handle it).
Jim
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