On mardi, nov 25, 2003, at 13:30 Europe/Paris, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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...scilab only runs as root, quitting with
"write start: can't write file
apparent state: unit 1 named /Volumes/Storage/Users/user/scilab.hist
last format: (a)
lately writing sequential formatted external IO
/sw/bin/scilab: line 205: 2312 Abort trap $SCI/bin/scilex $*


Yes, this is a permission problem. Scilab writes a history log into ~/scilab.hist in your home directory. Sometimes during the installation of Scilab, this file gets created with root as its owner. It should be owned by you.

So do "ls -l ~/scilab.hist" to see the permissions, and

sudo chown user ~/scilab.hist

to fix it.

BTW, this same problem appears often with other files as well, causing sometimes errors that are hard to detect. Examples I have seen are
.tcsh_history, .qt, .TeXmacs. Best to check with "ls -la ~" and look hard at anything not owned by you.


--
Martin



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