[gentoo-user] Weird error emerging seahorse

[gentoo-user] Weird error emerging seahorse

[Kristian Poul Herkild]

Emerging seahorse fails with following error:

...
mkdir -p /usr/share/mime/packages/
update-mime-database /usr/share/mime/
update-mime-database: I don't have write permission on /usr/share/mime.
Try rerunning me as root.
...
!!! ERROR: app-crypt/seahorse-0.7.8 failed.
!!! Function gnome2_src_install, Line 69, Exitcode 2
!!! install failed
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status 
message.

And yes, I'm emerging it as root, having done a su - root


Kind Regards,
Kristian Poul Herkild
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Re: [gentoo-user] Weird error emerging seahorse

[Ow Mun Heng]

On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 22:49 +0200, Kristian Poul Herkild wrote:
> Emerging seahorse fails with following error:
> 
> ...
> mkdir -p /usr/share/mime/packages/
> update-mime-database /usr/share/mime/
> update-mime-database: I don't have write permission on /usr/share/mime.
> Try rerunning me as root.
> ...
> !!! ERROR: app-crypt/seahorse-0.7.8 failed.
> !!! Function gnome2_src_install, Line 69, Exitcode 2
> !!! install failed
> !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status 
> message.

what about the dir permission?? Here's mine

 $ ls -ld mime
drwxr-xr-x  12 root root 4096 Mar 31 18:26 mime

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Re: [gentoo-user] Weird error emerging seahorse

[Kristian Poul Herkild]

Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 22:49 +0200, Kristian Poul Herkild wrote:
>> Emerging seahorse fails with following error:
>>
>> ...
>> mkdir -p /usr/share/mime/packages/
>> update-mime-database /usr/share/mime/
>> update-mime-database: I don't have write permission on /usr/share/mime.
>> Try rerunning me as root.
>> ...
>> !!! ERROR: app-crypt/seahorse-0.7.8 failed.
>> !!! Function gnome2_src_install, Line 69, Exitcode 2
>> !!! install failed
>> !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status 
>> message.
> 
> what about the dir permission?? Here's mine
> 
>  $ ls -ld mime
> drwxr-xr-x  12 root root 4096 Mar 31 18:26 mime
> 

Apart from dates it's identical to the output I get.

-Kristian
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Re: [gentoo-user] Weird error emerging seahorse

[Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales]

Are you running this as root?

2006/4/3, Kristian Poul Herkild <kristian@herkild.dk>:
> Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> > On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 22:49 +0200, Kristian Poul Herkild wrote:
> >> Emerging seahorse fails with following error:
> >>
> >> ...
> >> mkdir -p /usr/share/mime/packages/
> >> update-mime-database /usr/share/mime/
> >> update-mime-database: I don't have write permission on /usr/share/mime.
> >> Try rerunning me as root.
> >> ...
> >> !!! ERROR: app-crypt/seahorse-0.7.8 failed.
> >> !!! Function gnome2_src_install, Line 69, Exitcode 2
> >> !!! install failed
> >> !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status
> >> message.
> >
> > what about the dir permission?? Here's mine
> >
> >  $ ls -ld mime
> > drwxr-xr-x  12 root root 4096 Mar 31 18:26 mime
> >
>
> Apart from dates it's identical to the output I get.
>
> -Kristian
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>
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Re: [gentoo-user] Weird error emerging seahorse

[Kristian Poul Herkild]

On Mon, 3 Apr 2006 15:07:33 -0300, Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales wrote
> Are you running this as root?

Yes. I always emerge as root, since my ordinary user isn't in the emerge-group.

So basically this:
1) su - root
1.1) writing password and pressing enter
2) emerge seahorse
2.1) failure because it is not running as root.

Weird...

-Kristian


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Re: [gentoo-user] Weird error emerging seahorse

[Richard Fish]

On 4/3/06, Kristian Poul Herkild <kristian@herkild.dk> wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Apr 2006 15:07:33 -0300, Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales wrote
> > Are you running this as root?
>
> Yes. I always emerge as root, since my ordinary user isn't in the emerge-group.
>
> So basically this:
> 1) su - root
> 1.1) writing password and pressing enter
> 2) emerge seahorse
> 2.1) failure because it is not running as root.

I think the normal portage configuration contains userpriv, which
causes portage to drop root privledges and run as portage:portage.

Try:

2) FEATURES=-userpriv emerge seahorse

Although it is a badly behaved ebuild that wants to modify actual
system files just to build...you might also have to disable
sandboxing.  See 'man make.conf'.

-Richard

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