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pyocd need sudo to work

See original GitHub issue

Hi,

Simply running pyocd-gdbserver on terminal gives me

Traceback (most recent call last):    
  File "/usr/bin/pyocd-gdbserver", line 5, in <module>    
    from pkg_resources import load_entry_point    
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2927, in <module>    
    @_call_aside    
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2913, in _call_aside    
    f(*args, **kwargs)    
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2952, in _initialize_master_working_set    
    add_activation_listener(lambda dist: dist.activate())    
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 956, in subscribe    
    callback(dist)    
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2952, in <lambda>    
    add_activation_listener(lambda dist: dist.activate())    
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2513, in activate    
    for pkg in self._get_metadata('namespace_packages.txt'):    
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2503, in _get_metadata    
    for line in self.get_metadata_lines(name):    
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 1477, in get_metadata_lines    
    return yield_lines(self.get_metadata(name))    
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 1469, in get_metadata    
    return self._get(self._fn(self.egg_info, name))    
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 1580, in _get    
    with open(path, 'rb') as stream:    
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/protobuf-3.0.0b3-py2.7.egg/EGG-INFO/namespace_packages.tx

Same case with pyocd-tool, sudo pyocd-tool --version is 0.1.dev24

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flitcommented, Aug 17, 2016

You shouldn’t need root permissions for any of the pyOCD tools on any system (OS X, Linux, Windows).

It looks to me like pkg_resources from setuptools is trying to init, but you have the protobuf package installed with root access only. This is not directly related to pyOCD.

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c1728p9commented, Oct 25, 2016

@aurabindo can you confirm that sudo is no longer needed?