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Let me jump the gun and say that if the uid/username of the owner of ~/.config/FreeFileSync is not your current uid/username, then you will need to chown it.

sudo chown --recursive ~/.config/FreeFileSync


bgstack15, 24 Apr 2022, 19:54

Thank you!

Apologies again! The zip file just contains the binaries, I thought for a minute it might be source.

You are right. Sorry for being stupid. When FreeFileSync 11.20 Setup runs it assumes the username and the name of the home directory are the same. For reasons of ease of mounting a remote drive I changed the name of the home directory. E.g.:

[rpowell@roger-pc ~]$ pwd
/home/rogerp

Maybe I should ...

The requested output:

[rpowell@roger-pc ~]$ df -BM ~/.config/FreeFileSync
Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 928925M 184842M 696825M 21% /
[rpowell@roger-pc ~]$ df -i ~/.config/FreeFileSync
Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 60473344 1765332 ...

Thanks for staying with me.

ls -alZ ~/.config/FreeFileSync
total 28
drwxrwxr-x 3 rpowell rpowell ? 4096 Apr 21 18:38 .
drwxrwxr-x 82 rpowell rpowell ? 4096 Apr 27 20:39 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 rpowell rpowell ? 7724 Aug 18 2021 GlobalSettings.xml
-rw-rw-r-- 1 rpowell rpowell ? 33 Feb 6 2021 Install.dat ...

@bgstack15

Didn't read your post properly
strace ./FreeFileSync | grep /open\(/
Reveals the following erudite response:

execve("./FreeFileSync", ["./FreeFileSync"], 0x7ffd1e930570 /* 75 vars */) = 0
[ Process PID=5181 runs in 32 bit mode. ]
strace: WARNING: Proper structure decoding for this ...

I didn't do any installs between between 11.16 and 11.20
strace touch "/home/rpowell/.config/FreeFileSync/Install.dat.6e95.tmp"

gives ...

execve("/usr/bin/touch", ["touch", "/home/rpowell/.config/FreeFileSy"...], 0x7fffd8011f68 /* 75 vars */) = 0
brk(NULL) = 0x55a443277000
arch_prctl(0x3001 ...

Many thanks for the responses. Sorry not to respond quicker.

file system: ext4
Run from CLI causes the same widget to pop up with the same error but it stops exactly as shown below i.e. with Read(3, [reminds me of FORTRAN :) ]


[rpowell@roger-pc FreeFileSync]$ strace ./FreeFileSync
execve ...

I know this has been asked before, and I've read all the posts.

FFS simply doesn't even start, I get the above message along with `EACCES: Permission denied [open]`. Same with RTS.

I've had this problem since FFS v11.16; I have just installed 11.20 (I've been using FFS regularly for at least 8-9 ...

Hi,
Somewhat belatedly but in case anyone else is searching, this works for me on Manjaro