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    copied!<p>I'm running 64-bit OpenSUSE 12.1, today I downloaded the latest Scala 2.9.2 from the official website, after unpacking the tgz and go to scala-2.9.2/bin directory, I executed "scala" and got this error message:</p> <pre><code>[init] error: error while loading &lt;root&gt;, error in opening zip file Failed to initialize compiler: object scala not found. ** Note that as of 2.8 scala does not assume use of the java classpath. ** For the old behavior pass -usejavacp to scala, or if using a Settings ** object programatically, settings.usejavacp.value = true. </code></pre> <p>I attempted to run scala -usejavacp but it doesn't help. I've been using Scala a lot in many other distros and have never got this error before.</p> <p>My OpenSUSE installation has OpenJDK 6 installed.</p> <p>Please suggest your opinions, thank you!</p> <p>I have made the following attempts to solve the problem:</p> <ol> <li>Install Oracle JDK 1.7 and run scala, confirmed that scala REPL reports running in hotspot JVM 1.7, same error occurs.</li> <li>Installed sbt and run "console" from sbt, same error occurs.</li> <li>strace and diff the output between sudo scala and scala as normal user, there is no difference except the error message above.</li> <li>scala -Ylog-classpath as su and normal user, then diff the output, same as above.</li> <li>disabled AppArmor and tried again, same error message.</li> <li>Download other scala versions (all of 2.9x, and 2.10 milestone 4), all of their REPL give the same error message.</li> <li>Made sure fsc is not running before scala REPL runs</li> <li>Made sure that the hostname is resolvable</li> </ol> <p>well this is a really interesting problem, I'll definitely post a solution if I can luckily find it.</p> <p>Thanks a lot for your help!</p> <p>Last edit: Thanks for everyone here and on reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/scala/comments/w5s0m/please_help_scala_only_runs_as_root_user_gives/) who offered very valuable suggestions to help me figure out this very strange issue. See my answer below for the solution.</p>
 

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