SOLVED: Re: gitk doesn't work w/o sudo.

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:50 PM, Dilip M [off-list ref] wrote:

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Johannes Schindelin
[off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

'd try running it with strace, and then search the output for stat()
calls involving <something>/.git.

Seems like we are almost there....here is the log..

dm-laptop:~/repos/atria> grep gitk /tmp/gitk_1.log
execve("/usr/bin/gitk", ["/usr/bin/gitk"], [/* 37 vars */]) = 0
open("/usr/bin/gitk", O_RDONLY)         = 3
execve("/usr/bin/wish8.4", ["/usr/bin/wish8.4", "/usr/bin/gitk",
"--"], [/* 37 vars */]) = 0
stat("/usr/bin/gitk", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=237778, ...}) = 0
open("/usr/bin/gitk", O_RDONLY)         = 6
lstat("/usr/share/gitk", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
lstat("/usr/share/gitk/lib", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
lstat("/usr/share/gitk/lib/msgs", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
access("/usr/share/gitk/lib/msgs/en_in.msg", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No
such file or directory)  <======
lstat("/usr/share/gitk", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
lstat("/usr/share/gitk/lib", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
lstat("/usr/share/gitk/lib/msgs", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
access("/usr/share/gitk/lib/msgs/en.msg", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such
file or directory)       <======
stat("/home/dm/.gitk", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=683, ...}) = 0
open("/home/dm/.gitk", O_RDONLY)        = 6
writev(5, [{"\22\0\7\0\16\0@\3\'\0\0\0\37\0\0\0\10NG\0\4\0\0\0gitk\20"...,
48}], 1) = 48
writev(5, [{"\22\0\7\0\16\0@\3(\1\0\0\37\1\0\0\10AME\4\0\0\0gitk\22"...,
112}], 1) = 112

dm-laptop:~/repos/atria> ls -l /usr/share/gitk/lib/msgs/en_in.msg
ls: cannot access /usr/share/gitk/lib/msgs/en_in.msg: No such file or directory

But how is it working when  I do 'sudo'..

Just re-installed tcl/tk...it is working fine..:)

Many thanks to Reece Dunn,  Johannes Schindelin, Brian Foster....who
all helped me out...:)

-- DM