It sounds to me almost like they are running under different users, but it may be something else entirely.
Just my 2 cents, Jason On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 12:38 AM, StephenG <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks Peter - that worked. The problem lies with the assignment of > the icon. Mnemosyne ran perfectly from the Terminal, and from the > Desktop Menu. Running from the icon leads to the 'Cannot find ...' > message, and subsequently running from Terminal or Desktop Menu fails > to find the Default.mem. Removing all .mnemosyne directories and > starting again solves the problem. > Stephen > > > On 14 Feb, 17:23, Peter Bienstman <[email protected]> wrote: >> I suggest you first remove all the .mnemosyne directories you can find. >> >> Then, log in as normal user, not as root (provided you can do this in your >> linux version) and start the program. Add a few cards to make sure it works. >> >> Then you can copy over your default.mem from Windows. Make sure that file has >> write permissions. >> >> You can also copy over log.txt and the history folder if you want to preserve >> your history. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Peter >> >> On Saturday 14 February 2009 16:16:14 StephenG wrote: >> >> > I'm running Mnemosyne under Linpus Linux on an Acer Aspire One. >> >> > After initially installing successfully, and downloading some cards >> > (Chinese) I've used before under Windows, now the program consistently >> > gives the message: Unable to load database. Creating tmp file. I >> > accepted this, reloaded the cards, but next time it failed to find the >> > new __TMP__.mem file previously createdn and started again. >> >> > In fact it also creates a new default.mem file as well (checked by >> > renaming the old one and then discovering there's a new one after I >> > restart Mnemosyne, and in the .mnemosyne/log/txt file: >> >> > 2009-02-14 14:55:53 : Program started : Mnemosyne 1.2 posix linux2 >> > 2009-02-14 14:55:56 : New database >> > 2009-02-14 14:56:43 : Saved database 0 0 0 >> > 2009-02-14 14:56:43 : Program stopped >> >> > ). >> >> > There were several default.mem files in: .home/user/.mnemosyne .home/ >> > user .mnt/home/.mnemosyne .mnt/home and in /root/.mnemosyne >> >> > I tried to get Mnemosyne to open the /root/.mnemosyne folder to access >> > the default.mem there (created the day I installed the program) but >> > cannot get it to do this. >> >> > Mnemosyne is (apparently) installed in: >> > ./home/user/Desktop/mnemosyne-1.2-r1/mnemosyne-1.2/ >> > and (or these are the same?) >> > ./mnt/home/Desktop/mnemosyne-1.2-r1/mnemosyne-1.2/ >> >> > (I did not notice this problem until after I had created desktop icon >> > links editing home/user/...group-app.xml to add Mnemosyne to a group, >> > but cannot think this would have caused a problem . The problem >> > remained when I rem'd out the icon.) >> >> > Any thoughts? Thanks. >> > Stephen >> >> ------------------------------------------------ >> Peter Bienstman >> Ghent University, Dept. of Information Technology >> Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, B-9000 Gent, Belgium >> tel: +32 9 264 34 46, fax: +32 9 264 35 93 >> WWW:http://photonics.intec.UGent.be >> email: [email protected] >> ------------------------------------------------ > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mnemosyne-proj-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
