[Digikam-users] unable to save picture with showfoto

[Caulier Gilles]

Le Lundi 1 Août 2005 12:03, Helder Guerreiro a écrit :
> Tom Albers wrote:
> > Op maandag 1 augustus 2005 11:17, schreef Helder Guerreiro:
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>I'm not able to save a modified picture with showfoto. If I start
> >>showfoto from the command line, I get this error when I try to save the
> >>picture:
> >>
> >>showfoto: WARNING: error saving image
> >>'/home/helder/.showfoto-tmp-castelo.jpg', 4
> >>
> >>A popup window also appears indicating that the operation failed.
> >>
> >>I'm running SuSE 9.2, and I have updated KDE using apt. The packages I
> >>have installed are:
> >>
> >>digikam-0.7.3-5
> >>digikamimageplugins-0.7.3-3
> >>
> >>While trying to solve this problem I've compiled digikam, but the error
> >>persists.
> >
> > Could you tell us which imlib version you are using?
>
> I'm using imlib2 1.2.1
>
> But I've just noticed that the directory:
>
> /usr/lib/imlib2
>
> was not world readable, 
> this seems to be the problem. I've changed the 
> permissions and now showfoto saves the files!!!

WHAT ? World Readable in /usr/lib ? Its very dangerous for any security 
points. It's abnormal to do it. Please, can you open a file in B.K.O ?

Thanks in advance.

Gilles Caulier