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When running as a non-root user on the host no useful error is printed #28

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apopple opened this issue Mar 28, 2018 · 1 comment

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apopple commented Mar 28, 2018

Running on the host requires access to /sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/scom/* which requires root access. Without it the following error it returned:

alistair@garrison2:~/Source/pdbg$ ./pdbg -p0 getscom 0xf000f
No valid targets found or specified. Try adding -p/-c/-t options to specify a target.
Alternatively run /home/alistair/Source/pdbg/.libs/lt-pdbg -a probe to get a list of all valid targets

It would be nicer if the user was told to run as root.

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apopple commented May 31, 2018

@RashmicaG any chance you can take a look at this? Thanks!

apopple assigned RashmicaG

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