[gentoo-user] Permission denied during emerge...

[gentoo-user] Permission denied during emerge...

[David Corbin]

I've started getting this: "Permission denied: access('/', W_OK)" on my 
emerges.  I've gotten for two different un-related projects.  It seems to 
happen during the "install".  

I've look at permission on / and they look normal to me.  And I am running 
this as root.

Thanks
-- 
David Corbin
-- 
gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Permission denied during emerge...

[Benno Schulenberg]

David Corbin wrote:
> I've started getting this: "Permission denied: access('/', W_OK)"
> on my emerges.  I've gotten for two different un-related
> projects.  It seems to happen during the "install".

How about pasting the actual error output plus some twenty lines 
before it?  And what are those projects?  You mean packages?

> I've look at permission on / and they look normal to me.

How about pasting the used ls command and its output?  How is anyone 
to diagnose your problem when you're not showing any hard data?

And while at it, paste the output of emerge --info too.

Benno
-- 
gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Permission denied during emerge...

[David Corbin]

On Sunday 22 April 2007 17:51, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> David Corbin wrote:
> > I've started getting this: "Permission denied: access('/', W_OK)"
> > on my emerges.  I've gotten for two different un-related
> > projects.  It seems to happen during the "install".
>
> How about pasting the actual error output plus some twenty lines
> before it?  And what are those projects?  You mean packages?
>
> > I've look at permission on / and they look normal to me.
>
> How about pasting the used ls command and its output?  How is anyone
> to diagnose your problem when you're not showing any hard data?
>
> And while at it, paste the output of emerge --info too.
>
> Benno


Well, the problem turned out not to be portage related at all.  Somehow, my 
root system was *acting* as if it were mounted ReadOnly.  mount said 
otherwise.   Rebooting (wince) corrected the problem.

Thanks 

-- 
David Corbin
Games, Gamers, Gaming - a blog - http://dcorbin.com/blogs/g3
-- 
gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Permission denied during emerge...

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 832 bytes --]

On Sunday 22 April 2007 19:37:58 David Corbin wrote:
> > David Corbin wrote:
> > > I've started getting this: "Permission denied: access('/', W_OK)"
> > > on my emerges.
>
> Somehow, my
> root system was *acting* as if it were mounted ReadOnly.  mount said
> otherwise.   Rebooting (wince) corrected the problem.

e2/3/4fs?  Certain errors inside those kernel modules (even if they are 
compiled in) will cause the fs they are working on to go read-only.  I 
suggest a full fsck when you can get the time and to check any self-diags 
and/or SMART info your disks provide immediately.

-- 
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.                     ,= ,-_-. =. 
bss03@volumehost.net                      ((_/)o o(\_))
ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy           `-'(. .)`-' 
http://iguanasuicide.org/                      \_/     

[-- Attachment #2: This is a digitally signed message part. --]
[-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 189 bytes --]