Kooka or Xsane won't run

Net Llama! netllama
Thu Oct 5 10:13:34 PDT 2006


On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, Harry G wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 October 2006 4:43 pm, Net Llama! wrote:
>> On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Harry G wrote:
>>> When run from a terminal, I get the error:
>>> insmod: can't
>>> read '/lib/modules/2.6.15-26-386/kernel/drivers/mfpportctrl/mfpport.ko':
>>> No such file or directory
>>>
>>> Did I muck up the kernel somehow?
>>
>> Looks that way.  Does the mfpport modules exist?
>
>
> No the file doesn't exit.
>
>  But if I try to run either as root (yes, I know you should not run Xsane as
> root) both work fine.
>
> Weird, huh?

So those apps are trying to load the module (which would fail under any 
circumstances for a non-root user)?  If so, that sounds like an app bug.

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