Bash: /usr/local/bin/flair: access is denied

Flair
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Hello dear @vasilis!

Recently I’ve got a strange problem (after last flair upgrade). For some reason, I don’t have permission to open flair (see screenshot). It says:

bash: /usr/local/bin/flair: Отказано в доступе

“Отказано в доступе” means access is denied. I found that I don’t have permission to open flair folder and after I changed the rights (it was only accesible from root) everything was ok. Also, I found that icons for .flair and .inp files disappeared, very similar to the Missing flair mime icons - #5 by vasilis topic. Installation is from Ubuntu 20.04 repo.

Thank you in advance!

2020-12-05_18-07

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Dear Ivan,

thanks for reporting the issue.

Until it is fixed and a new package is released, you need to change permission to 755 for:

  1. The following scripts in /usr/local/bin folder:
    dcmview, fcalc, flair, fless, fm, pt

  2. Recursively to /usr/local/flair directory:

    sudo chmod -R 755 /usr/local/flair

Cheers,
David

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Dear Dávid!

Thanks for the solution! But what about icons?

Regards,
Ivan

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Hi @vasilis and @horvathd
I got this error with the sudo install option. It worked fine with the installation from source.
Sunil

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Dear Ivan,

yes, you need to fix the permission for the icons application-x-flair.png and application-x-fluka.png in the /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/mimetypes directory.

Cheers,
David

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Dear Dávid!

The files are still not associated with flair. How to associate .flair files with flair? I mean, I used to be able to click twice on that files and flair opened these files by default.

Regards,
Ivan

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Dear Ivan,

maybe you need to restart your window manager or there are some other directories with the wrong permission I don’t know about preventing the correct association.

Until a fix comes out, I would suggest to use the command line or the Load button in Flair to access your simulations.

Cheers,
David

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Dear Dávid!

Okay, will wait for this fix!

Best wishes,
Ivan

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@Ivan could you please reinstall the package with
sudo apt install --reinstall flair flair-geoviewer

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Reinstall does not help. Is there a way to downgrade to 3.1.5?

P.S. OS is linux mint 20

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Hello, Vasilis!
This is doesn’t help…

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Can you try to make a clean install

  1. First remove sudo apt remove flair flair-geoviewer
  2. Ensure that there is nothing left
    sudo rm -Rf /usr/local/bin/flair /usr/local/flair
  3. and re install
    sudo apt install flair flair-geoviewer
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Thanks for suggestions! Already did, still the same…

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@Ivan could you send us the output of the following commands

ls -l /
ls -l /usr
ls -l /usr/local
ls -l /usr/local/bin
ls -l /usr/local/flair
dpkg -L flair
dpkg -L flair-geoviewer
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@vasilis, please see my logs attached after these commands:

ivan@ivan-PC:~$ ls -l / > log1.txt
ivan@ivan-PC:~$ ls -l /usr > log2.txt
ivan@ivan-PC:~$ ls -l /usr/local > log3.txt
ivan@ivan-PC:~$ ls -l /usr/local/bin > log4.txt
ivan@ivan-PC:~$ ls -l /usr/local/flair > log5.txt
ls: невозможно открыть каталог '/usr/local/flair': Отказано в доступе
ivan@ivan-PC:~$ sudo ls -l /usr/local/flair > log5.txt
[sudo] пароль для ivan: 
ivan@ivan-PC:~$ dpkg -L flair > log6.txt
ivan@ivan-PC:~$ dpkg -L flair-geoviewer > log7.txt

log1.txt (1.7 KB) log2.txt (723 Bytes) log3.txt (538 Bytes) log4.txt (1.8 KB) log5.txt (6.0 KB) log6.txt (40.2 KB) log7.txt (2.1 KB)

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Thank you @Ivan . The permissions are not set correctly.
Please execute the commands as @horvathd mentioned

cd /usr/local/bin
sudo chmod 755 flair dcmview fcalc fless fm pt
sudo chmod -R 755 /usr/local/flair

We are looking to correct the permissions in the package, and we will let you know.

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Yes, I know that, and did already, it was due to reinstall. I was lazy to set them properly after that again :sweat_smile:

Thank you!

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@ivan could you try again to re-install it. The error was coming from the virtual machine used to generate the package, the shared folder for some reason was automounted without the proper file permissions. Now, I forced the proper flags on mount and regenerated the package, which seems to have the correct permissions

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I confirm that everything is fine now! Icons are also here.

Huge thanks @vasilis and @horvathd!

Regards,
Ivan