MantisBT - Doomseeker
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0000501Doomseeker[All Projects] Bugpublic2011-06-23 16:032014-02-20 16:47
ReporterBorg 
Assigned ToZalewa 
PrioritynormalSeverityblockReproducibilityalways
StatusclosedResolutionunable to reproduce 
Platformx86OSWindows 2003 Enterprise R2 SP2OS Version
Product Version0.7 Beta 
Target VersionFixed in Version0.8 Beta 
Summary0000501: Doomseeker needs admin rights to start
DescriptionDoomseeker needs admin right to start.
This is a bit ridicolous :)
Also, when you start it as normal user,
all I get is Error executing program.
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Date ModifiedUsernameFieldChange
2011-06-23 16:03BorgNew Issue
2011-06-23 22:01Blzut3Note Added: 0001810
2011-06-24 08:19BorgNote Added: 0001811
2011-06-24 20:14Blzut3Assigned To => Zalewa
2011-06-24 20:14Blzut3Statusnew => assigned
2011-06-24 20:16Blzut3Note Added: 0001813
2011-07-19 20:13ZalewaNote Added: 0001923
2011-07-19 20:13ZalewaStatusassigned => resolved
2011-07-19 20:13ZalewaFixed in Version => 0.8 Beta
2011-07-19 20:13ZalewaResolutionopen => unable to reproduce
2012-06-09 13:22Torr SamahoCategoryGeneral => Bug
2014-02-20 16:47ZalewaStatusresolved => closed

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(0001810)
Blzut3   
2011-06-23 22:01   
IIRC this only happens on Windows server operating systems. I can't remember if it got fixed, could you try this build?'http://svn.drdteam.org/doomseeker/doomseeker-r638.zip [^]'
(0001811)
Borg   
2011-06-24 08:19   
Unfortunately exacly same result: Error executing program.
(0001813)
Blzut3   
2011-06-24 20:16   
Hopefully Zalewa can help you. (I don't have any version of Windows so I can't do much here.)
(0001923)
Zalewa   
2011-07-19 20:13   
a) Doomseeker doesn't need admin rights to start. All write operations are performed on the users home directory, or to be more precise: the one extracted from %APPDATA% environment variable. If such variable is not defined it means that your system is damaged. Also if such variable is not defined Doomseeker will use Qt methods to extract path to the user's root home directory (like "c:\documents and settings\mr_user" or "c:\users\mr_user", depending on the OS). However, administrator rights may be required if you attempt to run Doomseeker in portable mode either through "doomseeker-portable.bat" or through running doomseeker.exe with "--portable" argument. In portable mode Doomseeker PERFORMS write operations to the directory where the doomseeker.exe file resides. In fact in such case Win 2008 gives me information that ".doomseeker" directory cannot be created.
b) The problem with execution error appearing on startup was related to a missing MANIFEST file. This file has been added.

As I too have no access to Windows 2003 I tested the r638 build on Windows Server 2008 x64. This is a clean installation of Windows 2008. I have extracted the build to a subdir inside both "Program Files" and also "Program Files (x86)" directories. After that I attempted to run Doomseeker as a user without the administrator privileges. Doomseeker ran just fine.