"save" Pre-2.0.0 File Fails In Linux

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Hi and thanks for 2.0!

I opened a file created in 1.9.1 and hit “Upgrade” in “Song Settings”.
That seemed to go OK.
Then I tried to “Save” from the “File” dialog.
Got this message:

“Saving failed with the error:
Failed to open the file ‘/bla/bla/bla/my_song’ for writing.”

A quick look at the permissions shows that the file is owned by root.
I installed Renoise 2.0.0.b1 in my home folder as a normal user.
I was able to save the file using the “Save as” command in the “File” dialog.

Looking fwd to all the new features, thanks again!

2

Looks like you chmod’ed Renoise 1.9.1 to make the Renoise executable SUID. This is evil because of exactly this reason: Everything you write/do in Renoise is done as root then.

If you did this for the realtime priorities, you should use PAM instead. See here for a small howto: http://en.opensuse.org/JackLab/Assigning_r…rities_with_PAM. We’ll update our FAQs and replace the SUID trick with the PAM stuff as soon as possible…