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From: Wes Gray <smiths@×××××××××××××××.edu>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Odd portage permission problems
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 10:51:03
Message-Id: 20051024040138.GA23163@beavis
1 Started getting this problem when I try to emerge sync:
2
3 >receiving file list ...
4 >129008 files to consider
5 >metadata/
6 >recv_generator: mkdir "/usr/portage/x11-apps/xdriinfo/files" failed: Permissio
7 >n denied
8 >stat "/usr/portage/x11-apps/xdriinfo/files" failed: Permission denied
9 >metadata/timestamp.chk
10 > 32 100% 0.00kB/s 0:00:00
11 >mkstemp "/usr/portage/x11-apps/xdriinfo/.xdriinfo-0.99.1.ebuild.PTUe9h" failed
12 >: Input/output error
13 > 431 100% 0.00kB/s 0:00:00
14 >readlink "/usr/portage/x11-apps/xdriinfo/Manifest" failed: Permission denied
15 >readlink "/usr/portage/x11-apps/xdriinfo/files" failed: Permission denied
16 >readlink "/usr/portage/x11-apps/xdriinfo/xdriinfo-0.99.0_pre20050908.ebuild" f
17 >ailed: Permission denied
18 >readlink "/usr/portage/x11-apps/xdriinfo/ChangeLog" failed: Permission denied
19 >readlink "/usr/portage/x11-apps/xdriinfo/metadata.xml" failed: Permission deni
20 >ed
21 >readlink "/usr/portage/x11-misc/driconf/files/digest-driconf-0.2.7" failed: Pe
22 >rmission denied
23 >readlink "/usr/portage/sys-boot/sgibootcd/files/digest-sgibootcd-0.12" failed:
24 > Permission denied
25 >readlink "/usr/portage/sys-boot/sgibootcd/sgibootcd-0.12.ebuild" failed: Permi
26 >ssion denied
27 >recv_generator: mkdir "/usr/portage/x11-apps/xdriinfo/files" failed: Permissio
28 >n denied
29 >stat "/usr/portage/x11-apps/xdriinfo/files" failed: Permission denied
30 ...
31
32 Emerge sync ends up failing. It's weird, like my directory permissions are
33 broken:
34
35 ># cd /usr/portage/x11-apps/xdriinfo/
36 ># ls
37 >ChangeLog Manifest files metadata.xml xdriinfo-0.99.0_pre20050908.ebuild
38 ># ls -la
39 >ls: Manifest: Permission denied
40 >ls: files: Permission denied
41 >ls: xdriinfo-0.99.0_pre20050908.ebuild: Permission denied
42 >ls: ChangeLog: Permission denied
43 >ls: metadata.xml: Permission denied
44 >total 2
45 >drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 216 Oct 19 18:36 .
46 >drwxr-xr-x 95 root root 2448 Oct 23 08:06 ..
47 ># ls files
48 >ls: files: Permission denied
49 ># chmod 777 files
50 >chmod: cannot access `files': Permission denied
51 >#
52
53 What do you make of this? Do I need to run fsck?
54
55 -Wes
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Re: [gentoo-user] Odd portage permission problems Christoph Gysin <cgysin@×××.ch>
Re: [gentoo-user] Odd portage permission problems Sascha Lucas <sascha.lucas@×××××××××××××××××.de>