Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 14:39:25 -0400, JP wrote:
>
> > chown: changing ownership of `/home/jpebe/.povray': Operation not
> > permitted chown: changing ownership of `/home/jpebe/.povray/3.7':
> > Operation not permitted make[2]: *** [install-data-local] Error 1
>
> You don't have permission to write to the destination directory.
>
> make install is usually done as root, unless you're installing to a local
> directory.  Check the ownership and rights to the indicated directory.
>

I run the process as user "jpebe" and that is my home directory.
But somehow this directory (in ~/) is created under another user:

drwxrwxrwx  3 thomas thomas     4096 2011-03-22 18:15 .povray

?!  I cannot understand why this is happening..  even so everyone has
permissions to write to this directory...

>
> > ~$ povray
> > povray: This is a RELEASE CANDIDATE version of POV-Ray. General
> > distribution is discouraged.
> > Segmentation fault
> > ~$ /home/jpebe/dphil/apps/povray-3.7.0.RC3/bin/povray povray: This is a
> > RELEASE CANDIDATE version of POV-Ray. General distribution is
> > discouraged.
> > No input file provided
> >
> > Can anyone explain why is this? And can we have better error messages
> > than "Segmentation Fault" ?
>
> You got one:  No input file provided.
>
> Try launching with a valid command line and see how it works.  It
> *shouldn't* segfault (BTW, that is passed by the OS, not by the program,
> so there's not a lot the POV-Ray team can do to change that message since
> it's generated by the OS).
>
> You can get more info about the cause of the segfault and file a bug by
> running it under gdb.
>
> Jim

How do you run povray using gdb ?

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