[PLUG] Anyone familiar with minicom?

[Mike Connors]

Keith wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 01:21 -0800, Mike Connors wrote:
>   
>> Keith wrote:
>>     
>>> I can run minicom as root on openSuSE 11.2, but when I attempt to run it
>>> as a user I get the message "Cannot create lockfile. Sorry.". I have
>>> checked to make sure that I have permissions in that group, dialout, for
>>> that device and I can operate it without minicom. Is there a permission
>>> problem with the lock file? I can run the same version of minicom in
>>> Fedora as a user with no problems.
>>>       
>> Dumb question, but is the username that you're using in the group that 
>> has the
>> correct permissions?
>>     
>
>
> Yes, the user name is in the user group. The device can be operated by
> the user using other programs, just minicom complains about a lockfile.
Hmm, this is pretty straightforward. This sounds more like a bug.
You could try running the command with 'strace' and see if that provides
any insight.