Thanks for the idea. But no - there's only the one user.
Stephen
On 15 Feb, 20:22, Jason Axelson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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]
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