Well I'm not sure when he will pop into irc again but I'll try to reproduce this scenario.
On 12/31/2010 02:43 PM, Robby Findler wrote: > Probably whatever is writing to the preferences file should not be doing that. > > If he could send along whatever is in the .racket/ directory (and > owned by root) that would be useful. > > Robby > > On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 1:38 AM, Jon Rafkind <rafk...@cs.utah.edu> wrote: >> A user on IRC complained about an issue where after building and >> installing racket (with 'sudo make install') he received the following >> error upon starting drracket: >> >> Error saving preferences: open-output-file: cannot open output file: >> "~/.racket/.LOCKracket-prefs.rktd" (Permission denied; errno=13) >> >> Apparently some part of the installation process writes to ~/.racket and >> since he used 'sudo' it was with root privileges. Its worth noting that >> if you use 'su -c make install' things work because 'su -c' changes >> $HOME to /root whereas sudo does not. >> >> The user used 'sudo make install' because he passed >> '--prefix=/usr/local' to configure and so expected things to install >> there. I suppose this is a case of user error but its extremely subtle >> so I wouldn't call it that. >> >> Maybe during installation ~/.racket shouldn't be used, and /tmp/racket >> could be used instead or something? >> _________________________________________________ >> For list-related administrative tasks: >> http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev >> _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev
