Errors with Linux Mint 18

[Eleven]

I have a brand new install of Linux Mint 18, and just installed PI. Upon exiting the program I get a plethora of errors. They include "Error Writing Settings Data (int)" and "Error Writing Settings Data (bool)" as well as "Settings: Error writing local integer data: Interfaces/Preferences/Geometry/Left" "Error Writing Settings Data (string)".

It will not allow me to complete the internal updates, I can download them inside the program, but when I try to exit, that's when I get all those errors and then restarting the program, the updates are available again, but not applied.

I'm running Linux Mint 18 64bit and PixInsight Core 01.08.04.1198 Ripley (x64)

[Juan Conejero]

Not reproducible. I have just installed a new Linux Mint 18 (Cinnamon) virtual machine and PixInsight 1.8.4.1198 works perfectly.

"Error Writing Settings Data (int)"
"Settings: Error writing local integer data: Interfaces/Preferences/Geometry/Left"
"Error Writing Settings Data (string)"

These error messages indicate that PixInsight cannot write to its settings file upon exit. The settings file is:

$HOME/.PixInsight/PixInsight.conf

Please check that you (the user you are using to run PixInsight) have full write permissions on the $HOME/.PixInsight directory.

[Eleven]

Not reproducible. I have just installed a new Linux Mint 18 (Cinnamon) virtual machine and PixInsight 1.8.4.1198 works perfectly.

"Error Writing Settings Data (int)"
"Settings: Error writing local integer data: Interfaces/Preferences/Geometry/Left"
"Error Writing Settings Data (string)"

These error messages indicate that PixInsight cannot write to its settings file upon exit. The settings file is:

$HOME/.PixInsight/PixInsight.conf

Please check that you (the user you are using to run PixInsight) have full write permissions on the $HOME/.PixInsight directory.

I've had PI installed in Linux Mint before, but this time something is different. I have found that I need to be root to run the program. It's not the end of the world but it makes no sense.

I've tried reinstalling, I've also tried manually deleting all the files and then reinstalling but it all ends up the same, if I'm not root, I cannot run the program without the write errors.

(EDIT) I just checked and the conf file was locked to normal users...not sure how that can happen, but I'm going to try reinstalling again and see if it does it. At least I know what the issue is and can work around it now. Thanks!

[Eleven]

My Linux Mint install was a new one, only a day or two old, so I just wiped it and reinstalled the entire OS again. This time PI installed correctly, all permissions were as they should be, so far so good.

Thanks for the help, I have a feeling the real problem was the Linux install, not PI.

[gembol]

Hello!!

I have recently installed Linux Mint 18 on my computer. PixInsight allways worked flawlessly, but now appears an error at PI start:

[Juan Conejero]

This cannot be reproduced on any of our testing and working machines. As noted above, PixInsight 1.8.4.1198 for Linux works perfectly on a newly installed Linux Mint 18 (with the Cinnamon desktop) machine. From the crash report, this looks like a DBus error. Typically, this is caused by bad desktop manager configurations, wrong device drivers, or driver conflicts.

[gembol]

OK, thank you!