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09-05-2003	#31 (permalink)
Dolda2000 Linux Guru Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Täby, Sweden Posts: 7,578	I thought of the files that you got errors about; gaim_auth.png, gaim_cool.png, gaim_error.png and so on. Don't chown the files; chmod them instead.

09-05-2003	#32 (permalink)
bmxface Linux User Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Minnesota, USA yes..... Posts: 479	does chmod work the same? whats the difference? and i could not find those specific files

09-05-2003	#33 (permalink)
Dolda2000 Linux Guru Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Täby, Sweden Posts: 7,578	chmod changes the actual permissions of a file, instead of its owner/group. See the texinfo on chmod (run "info chmod") for more info on it. Did you try searching for the files ("find / -name gaim_auth.png")?

09-05-2003	#34 (permalink)
bmxface Linux User Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Minnesota, USA yes..... Posts: 479	chmod [OPTION]... {MODE \| --reference=REF_FILE} FILE... thats not making sense to me. im not sure what to put....

09-05-2003	#35 (permalink)
Dolda2000 Linux Guru Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Täby, Sweden Posts: 7,578	It says in the same file, if you check the link to "Note File permissions::".

09-05-2003	#36 (permalink)
bmxface Linux User Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Minnesota, USA yes..... Posts: 479	ok, even after chmoding the hell out of everything with the name gaim on it, it still dont work right

09-05-2003	#37 (permalink)
Dolda2000 Linux Guru Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Täby, Sweden Posts: 7,578	Do you still get the "unable to load stock pixmap..." errors? Otherwise, there seems to be something with MCOP as well. Unfortunately, I don't know what MCOP is, but it seems to be complaining that /tmp/mcop-troy isn't owned by you, so try chowning it to you.

09-05-2003	#38 (permalink)
bmxface Linux User Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Minnesota, USA yes..... Posts: 479	well, it only does that as ROOT. see im trying to get this as user....so i guess i could try chowning it to root. just to see.

09-05-2003	#39 (permalink)
bmxface Linux User Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Minnesota, USA yes..... Posts: 479	ok, and even so...its still not working right with both user and root

09-05-2003	#40 (permalink)
Dolda2000 Linux Guru Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Täby, Sweden Posts: 7,578	If you run it from a terminal, does it give you any error before it crashes?

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