Linux and sudo

[z.b+]

If i run the game as:

sudo altitude

everything runs fine.

This of course means the command will not work from the menu not to mention that I do not want to run the game under sudo / gksudo.

I even tried changing the default install path from /opt/altitude to /home/[user]/games/altitude ...but same problem.

Here is the log file entry that is happening:

INFO [2010-09-22 21:35:05,356] [main]: Altitude is already running, failed to acquire lock: /tmp/altitude-game-run-lock.tmp

Deleting the tmp file does nothing on the next run.


I can not be the only one having this problem!!


ps. keep in mind the game works fine as sudo so it must be a permission error.

[lamster]

Is your /tmp directory not world-writable?

You may need to delete any existing /tmp/altitude-game-run-lock.tmp as root, then launch the game with a standard user.

[z.b+]

I had to reinstall it over the directory. I had originally installed it as

sudo sh altitude.sh

Then I ran as some files still belonged to root.

sudo chown -R [user]:[user] .

Then I deleted the tmp file and ran it several more times. It finally worked. Kinda weird.

*DO NO INSTALL AS SUDO*, will cause problems.