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Bug 228809

Summary: preinst of glibc ebuild fails when called from root squashed nfs dir
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Kai Krakow <hurikhan77+bgo>
Component: [OLD] UnspecifiedAssignee: Gentoo Toolchain Maintainers <toolchain>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal    
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description Kai Krakow 2008-06-21 22:34:57 UTC
My $HOME is on a root squashed nfs... When I run "sudo emerge -1a glibc" from within my login directory it fails the preinst tests because /bin/ls trys to list my home dir which "root" isn't allowed to do on a root squashed nfs.

Reproducible: Always