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agds
August 26th, 2005, 04:29 AM
I can't run America's Army. I had to install it to a FAT32 partition I share with Windows due to insufficient space on my Linux partition. I don't see why this should make a difference, but this doesn't seem to be a (well-)documented problem. When I click the launcher, I get the following message.Cannot launch entry

Details: Failed to execute child process "/media/windows/armyops//armyops" (Permission denied)I've tried "sudo chmod +x" and "sudo chmod a+rx" with the executable and the shell script to no avail. I don't understand permissions as well as I should, so it's entirely possible I'm missing something obvious here. Your help would be much appreciated.

arnieboy
August 27th, 2005, 11:57 AM
I can't run America's Army. I had to install it to a FAT32 partition I share with Windows due to insufficient space on my Linux partition. I don't see why this should make a difference, but this doesn't seem to be a (well-)documented problem. When I click the launcher, I get the following message.I've tried "sudo chmod +x" and "sudo chmod a+rx" with the executable and the shell script to no avail. I don't understand permissions as well as I should, so it's entirely possible I'm missing something obvious here. Your help would be much appreciated.
u have to check whether u have execute permissions on the FAT32 permission or not.
check ur /etc/fstab file to make sure u have umask=000 for the FAT 32 partition. if thats fine, try playing the game with "sudo /location_of_file/armyops" where u have to obviously put in the correct path.

agds
August 28th, 2005, 05:40 PM
I checked my /etc/fstab and I have umask=000 for that partition. I also tried using sudo as you suggested. It returned a similar "Permission denied" message.