FSharp interactive on CentOS 6.2 with Mono 2.10.2 won't run as non-root

Question

Hopefully this has not been asked/answered before, but I haven't found anything that fits my issue.

I installed mono on CentOS 6.2 as described here using an rpm and then downloaded FSharp-2.0.0.0. I got it all set up and fsi works great (as long as I pass it the option --gui-) while as root. However, when I try to do it as a plain user I get an error telling me something about not being able to access the registry.

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I'm not sure what the issue is (I've never used CentOS before, but a lab I work in does and I want to put FSharp on it for data processing -- thus I have to use CentOS, which I've read can be troublesome with mono). Thanks for any help!

Answer 1

I know little about CentOS, but the error message seems fairly clear, the mono process running fsi.exe does not have access to a file (the file path is given in the message). So it should be just a matter of running as root to give yourself access to the file, or better yet granting the current user access to this file via chmod (or similar tool).