Bug 208368 – install fails on keepdir with VFAT partitions

• Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Tavi Notrub 2008-01-31 23:46:10 UTC]

!!! Failed to chown/chmod/unlink in movefile()
!!! /media/.keep_sys-apps_hal-0
!!! [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '/media/.keep_sys-apps_hal-0'

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge hal
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
!!! Failed to chown/chmod/unlink in movefile()
!!! /media/.keep_sys-apps_hal-0
!!! [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '/media/.keep_sys-apps_hal-0'

Expected Results:  
hal was installed correctly or explained how to resolve the issue (e.g. reinstall package X with USE=blah)

cat /etc/make.conf

CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=pentium-m -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel"
VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia"
INPUT_DEVICES="synaptics mouse keyboard vmouse"
LINGUAS="en en_US"
USE="alsa apache2 bzip2 cd cdr cups dbus dvd dvdr dvdread ffmpeg firefox thunderbird jpeg john gif gtk ogg oss madwifi mpeg nsplugin wmf wmv quicktime real spell mp3 mp4 png tiff truetype wifi X xfce4 xinerama"

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2008-01-31 23:48:28 UTC]

PEBKAC ?  dont make /media/ read-only ?

[Comment 2 Tavi Notrub 2008-02-01 00:06:31 UTC]

It is mounted as read/write.

mount

/dev/hda6 on /media type vfat (rw,uid=1000,gid=100,umask=0000)

I unmounted it and hal installed okay...hmmm...is this resolved...not sure.

[Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2008-02-01 08:39:50 UTC]

vfat is a bad idea, frankly, esp. since .foo is illegal filename there. Every ebuild that does keepdir will fail the same.