Error: Couldn't open rom file "..." for reading. First time it happens with this machine.

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Describe your system:
 - Ubuntu 13.04 64bit
 - Intel i5 2500 64bit
 - Mupen64Plus version: 1.99.5
 - Plugins used: Default installed (I think for video it's called rice)

For visual artifacts, give:
 - mario kart, super smash brothers
 - Error: Couldn't open rom file "X" for reading.

Describe the problem:
I have been testing both Ubuntu 13.04, 13.10 and Linux mint 14 and it had 
worked just fine. I just reinstalled ubuntu 13.04, installed mupen64plus and 
tried to run it and now i get that error message with every rom. It hadn't 
happened so I don't know what could cause the problem. I changed my rom files' 
names to make them terminal friendly so I know the name is not the problem, 
besides I created a file which i keep on reusing wth a script to run the rom, 
so it's not a typing problem, because that's the same file I've been using on 
every installation:

#! /bin/bash

mupen64plus '/home/mg/roms/supersmashbrothers.v64'

I also created one for mario kart and they are both changed to be able to 
execute with chmod 755.

Please provide any additional information below.

Every time I reinstall i copy my mupen64plus.cfg file to make sure that my 
controllers work, and it has been working fine. These are the files I copied:
~/.config/mupen64plus/mupen64plus.cfg          >for my configuration
~/.local/share/mupen64plus.cfg/save/*          >for my save data
~/Escritorio/smash,kart                        >scripts to make it easier to 
run them

Original issue reported on code.google.com by hgle...@gmail.com on 18 Oct 2013 at 11:15

Attachments:

• kart
• mupen64plus.cfg
• smash

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I think I might know what the problem is now. When I was installing everything 
I used:

$ su

so when I copied my roms to the roms folder they were I think owned by root, 
because I tried overwriting in graphical interface one of them and it denied 
permission. So I erased the whole folder and copy and pasted them again and now 
it works just fine. 

Original comment by hgle...@gmail.com on 18 Oct 2013 at 11:58

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Original comment by s...@narfation.org on 22 Oct 2013 at 12:21

• Changed state: Invalid

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I don't understand what that means. I went to the code page and it says
status invalid.

Original comment by hgle...@gmail.com on 22 Oct 2013 at 4:21