Bug#815981: findbugs: does not start without root permissions

[Luca Ghio]

On Sun, 28 Feb 2016 14:44:04 -0800 tony mancill <tmancill at debian.org> wrote:
> Hmmm... What window manager are you using?  It's a bit suspicious that
> the application works correctly as root but not as a normal user for you.
I'm using KWin.

$ apt-cache policy kwin-x11
kwin-x11:
  Installed: 4:5.4.3-1.1
  Candidate: 4:5.4.3-1.1
  Version table:
 *** 4:5.4.3-1.1 990
        990 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

> You might want to check the ownership of the files beneath:
> 
>   ~/.java/.userPreferences/edu/umd/cs/findbugs/
> 
That folder doesn't exist, but I have folder ~/.java/.userPrefs/edu/umd/cs/findbugs
The current user has all permissions and ownerships on all files and folders.

> findbugs is going to want to write a prefs.xml file beneath that tree.
> If the permissions and ownership all look reasonable, you might try
> deleting the entire tree with:
> 
>   rm -rf ~/.java/.userPreferences/edu/umd/cs/findbugs
I tried, then I run findbugs and the folder was NOT created back.

> You can use "sudo update-alternatives --config java" to set this up
> system-wide.
Tried still with no luck.