Bug 27617 – can't emerge octave-forge

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Ian Fiske 2003-08-30 14:00:19 UTC]

I tried to twice to emerge octave-forge and got the same error.  I tried once
from a shell in X where is "su"ed to root.  And I tried again logging in as root
at the tty login.  Here is the error:

First, I get the following many times, but with different directories:

  ACCESS DENIED  mkdir:     /usr/share/texmf/fonts/pk
  mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/share/texmf/fonts/pk': Permission denied
  kpsestat: /usr/share/texmf/fonts/pk/..: No such file or directory
  chmod: too few arguments
  Try `chmod --help' for more information.

Then I get this:

--------------------------- ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY ---------------------------
LOG FILE = "/tmp/sandbox-octave-forge-2003.02.22-29576.log"

mkdir:     /usr/share/texmf/fonts/pk
mkdir:     /usr/share/texmf/fonts/pk/ljfour
mkdir:     /usr/share/texmf/fonts/pk/ljfour/public
mkdir:     /usr/share/texmf/fonts/pk/ljfour/public/cm
mkdir:     /usr/share/texmf/fonts/pk
mkdir:     /usr/share/texmf/fonts/pk/ljfour
mkdir:     /usr/share/texmf/fonts/pk/ljfour/public
mkdir:     /usr/share/texmf/fonts/pk/ljfour/public/cm
mkdir:     /usr/share/texmf/fonts/pk
mkdir:     /usr/share/texmf/fonts/pk/ljfour
mkdir:     /usr/share/texmf/fonts/pk/ljfour/public
mkdir:     /usr/share/texmf/fonts/pk/ljfour/public/cm
mkdir:     /usr/share/texmf/fonts/pk
mkdir:     /usr/share/texmf/fonts/pk/ljfour
mkdir:     /usr/share/texmf/fonts/pk/ljfour/public
mkdir:     /usr/share/texmf/fonts/pk/ljfour/public/cm
mkdir:     /usr/share/texmf/fonts/pk
mkdir:     /usr/share/texmf/fonts/pk/ljfour
mkdir:     /usr/share/texmf/fonts/pk/ljfour/public
mkdir:     /usr/share/texmf/fonts/pk/ljfour/public/cm
mkdir:     /usr/share/texmf/fonts/pk
mkdir:     /usr/share/texmf/fonts/pk/ljfour
mkdir:     /usr/share/texmf/fonts/pk/ljfour/public
mkdir:     /usr/share/texmf/fonts/pk/ljfour/public/cm
mkdir:     /usr/share/texmf/fonts/pk
mkdir:     /usr/share/texmf/fonts/pk/ljfour
mkdir:     /usr/share/texmf/fonts/pk/ljfour/public
mkdir:     /usr/share/texmf/fonts/pk/ljfour/public/cm
mkdir:     /usr/share/texmf/fonts/pk
mkdir:     /usr/share/texmf/fonts/pk/ljfour
mkdir:     /usr/share/texmf/fonts/pk/ljfour/public
mkdir:     /usr/share/texmf/fonts/pk/ljfour/public/cm
mkdir:     /usr/share/texmf/fonts/pk
mkdir:     /usr/share/texmf/fonts/pk/ljfour
mkdir:     /usr/share/texmf/fonts/pk/ljfour/public
mkdir:     /usr/share/texmf/fonts/pk/ljfour/public/cm
mkdir:     /usr/share/texmf/fonts/pk
mkdir:     /usr/share/texmf/fonts/pk/ljfour
mkdir:     /usr/share/texmf/fonts/pk/ljfour/public
mkdir:     /usr/share/texmf/fonts/pk/ljfour/public/cm
mkdir:     /usr/share/texmf/fonts/pk
mkdir:     /usr/share/texmf/fonts/pk/ljfour
mkdir:     /usr/share/texmf/fonts/pk/ljfour/public
mkdir:     /usr/share/texmf/fonts/pk/ljfour/public/cm
mkdir:     /usr/share/texmf/fonts/pk
mkdir:     /usr/share/texmf/fonts/pk/ljfour
mkdir:     /usr/share/texmf/fonts/pk/ljfour/public
mkdir:     /usr/share/texmf/fonts/pk/ljfour/public/cm
mkdir:     /usr/share/texmf/fonts/pk
mkdir:     /usr/share/texmf/fonts/pk/ljfour
mkdir:     /usr/share/texmf/fonts/pk/ljfour/public
mkdir:     /usr/share/texmf/fonts/pk/ljfour/public/cm
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[Comment 1 Andrew 2003-09-18 19:01:46 UTC]

I had the same problem.  Here is the a section of the ouput of the log file.

rename:    /usr/share/texmf/fonts/pk/ljfour/public/cm/pk3628.tmp
open_wr:   /usr/share/texmf/fonts/pk/ljfour/public/cm/pk3628.tmp
rename:    /usr/share/texmf/fonts/pk/ljfour/public/cm/pk3717.tmp
open_wr:   /usr/share/texmf/fonts/pk/ljfour/public/cm/pk3717.tmp
rename:    /usr/share/texmf/fonts/pk/ljfour/public/cm/pk3806.tmp

To emerge it I used this command.

FEATURES="-sandbox -usersandbox" emerge octave-forge

I saw it in the forums for a related problem.

[Comment 2 Ian Fiske 2003-09-19 05:58:29 UTC]

Would you mind clarifying something for me?  After you emerged it with those 
commands, did it work or did it give you those errors? 

[Comment 3 Andrew 2003-09-19 15:08:53 UTC]

Sorry, to clarify I used the following command to succesfully emerge octave-forge.

FEATURES="-sandbox -usersandbox" emerge octave-forge

[Comment 4 Ed Suominen 2003-11-26 13:48:28 UTC]

I had a slightly different but related problem: I didn't have tetex installed, and the emerge of octave-forge failed because of that.

tetex should be added as a dependency.

[Comment 5 Dennis Wouters 2003-12-17 08:42:53 UTC]

Installing tetex first and then octave-forge did the trick for me as well, but isn't it a lot to ask to have tetex as a dependency for octave-forge?

[Comment 6 Patrick Kursawe (RETIRED) 2004-03-04 02:04:15 UTC]

Perhaps the docs as well as the tetex dependency should be made optional depending on the "doc" USE flag.

[Comment 7 Andrew Beard 2004-03-08 14:24:13 UTC]

I'm not sure if this should be a seperate bug or not, but that the moment there is no tetex dependencyin the ebuild.  I just attempted to emerge octave-forge and it crashed and burned with a "tex: command not found."  After emerging in tetex, it built fine, but it seems like something should be done to the ebuild to reflect the necessity of tex.

[Comment 8 Patrick Kursawe (RETIRED) 2004-03-08 22:46:16 UTC]

Sorry, I thought I would get to it sooner... added the dependency for now.

[Comment 9 Patrick Kursawe (RETIRED) 2004-03-10 04:50:48 UTC]

octave-forge-2004.02.12 will soon be in ~x86 - could you please try it? I could build it with or without tetex, that didn't matter at all.

[Comment 10 Patrick Kursawe (RETIRED) 2004-03-25 01:17:03 UTC]

No reaction for 15 days, regarding this as fixed.