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From: David Corbin <gentoo.org@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Permission denied during emerge...
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 00:45:09
Message-Id: 200704222037.58774.gentoo.org@machturtle.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Permission denied during emerge... by Benno Schulenberg
1 On Sunday 22 April 2007 17:51, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
2 > David Corbin wrote:
3 > > I've started getting this: "Permission denied: access('/', W_OK)"
4 > > on my emerges. I've gotten for two different un-related
5 > > projects. It seems to happen during the "install".
6 >
7 > How about pasting the actual error output plus some twenty lines
8 > before it? And what are those projects? You mean packages?
9 >
10 > > I've look at permission on / and they look normal to me.
11 >
12 > How about pasting the used ls command and its output? How is anyone
13 > to diagnose your problem when you're not showing any hard data?
14 >
15 > And while at it, paste the output of emerge --info too.
16 >
17 > Benno
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20 Well, the problem turned out not to be portage related at all. Somehow, my
21 root system was *acting* as if it were mounted ReadOnly. mount said
22 otherwise. Rebooting (wince) corrected the problem.
23
24 Thanks
25
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27 David Corbin
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