[gentoo-catalyst] catalyst as non-root

[gentoo-catalyst] catalyst as non-root

[Philipp Riegger]

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Hi!

I'd like to use catalyst as non-root user. I tried with fakeroot  
(1.7) and i get the following errors:

tar: ./dev/tty42: Cannot mknod: Operation not permitted
...
tar: ./dev/ttywa: Cannot mknod: Operation not permitted
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
ERROR: ld.so: object 'libfakeroot.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be  
preloaded: ignor
ed.
ERROR: ld.so: object 'libfakeroot.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be  
preloaded: ignor
ed.
ERROR: ld.so: object 'libfakeroot.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be  
preloaded: ignor
ed.

Any idea what i can do to get it running?

Did anybody else try running catalyst as non-root and can give me  
hints on how to do it?

Thanks,
	Philipp

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Re: [gentoo-catalyst] catalyst as non-root

[Andrew Gaffney]

Philipp Riegger wrote:
> Did anybody else try running catalyst as non-root and can give me hints 
> on how to do it?

We don't support catalyst running as non-root. If you want to do it, you're on 
your own.

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Andrew Gaffney                                 http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/
Gentoo Linux Developer             Catalyst/Installer + x86 release coordinator
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Re: [gentoo-catalyst] catalyst as non-root

[Chris Gianelloni]

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On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 08:36 -0500, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> Philipp Riegger wrote:
> > Did anybody else try running catalyst as non-root and can give me hints 
> > on how to do it?
> 
> We don't support catalyst running as non-root. If you want to do it, you're on 
> your own.

When catalyst was designed, nobody thought about running it as a
non-root user.  Well, I'm interested in adding support for running as a
non-root user.  The problem we're definitely going to face is device
node creation.  I've spoken with solar about using fakeroot and it is
something that we would like to pursue for the next catalyst
incarnation.  Of course, we want catalyst to use fakeroot/chroot based
on catalyst.conf settings, so we can't just replace the current code.
This is a planned feature for the catalyst 2.1 branch, but it hasn't
been started yet, so it'll be some time before we get to this point.

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Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering Strategic Lead
Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams
Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee
Gentoo Foundation

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