error: "Directory '/var/run/screen' must have mode 777." chmod 777 helped. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge --update screen 2. 3. Actual Results: s. Details Expected Results: screen runs without errors. Portage 2.0.49-r13 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.1, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.22_pre2-gss)================================================================= System uname: 2.4.22_pre2-gss i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) III Mobile CPU 1000MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10p1 distcc 2.11.1 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [enabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /var/spool/amanda/.amandahosts /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /var/qmail/control /var/qmail/alias" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs sandbox userpriv usersandbox buildpkg ccache distcc" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j6" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 foomaticdb libg++ mad mikmod berkdb slang tetex nas esd gphoto2 ldap i8x0 mmx sse -3dnow apm pcmcia pnp nls readline trusted cdr cups snmp slp mozilla X motif dga opengl xv -gpm -kde -qt -qtmt -arts gtk gtk2 gnome gb bonobo libwww libgda gtkhtml tcltk ncurses sdl svga imlib lcms gif wmf jpeg png tiff gd avi mpeg quicktime -alsa oss dvd xmms oggvorbis ggz -pam ssl crypt imap maildir mbox -tcpd spell truetype xml xml2 pdflib java jikes python perl gdbm -doc odbc mysql innodb zlib galeon openoffice encode samba apache apache2 php mod_php mod_ssl plotutils ethereal usb -guile -mozsvg mozcalendar -mozaccess mozp3p -mozxmlterm moznoirc -moznomail -moznocompose -moznoxft menu"
Looking into it now.
Just commited a fixed version of the ebuild. The chmod command at the end of the ebuild wasn't setting write for other. It's now fixed. Wait about half an hour or so, sync your portage tree again and re-emerge screen. Thanks for the bug.
$ emerge screen <went fine> $ chmod u+s /usr/bin/screen $ chmod g-w /var/run/screen $ screen -S emerge Directory '/var/run/screen' must have mode 755. ^^ I cannot create a new screen.
After doing `chmod 755 /var/run/screen` it works fine.
Just commited a revision to the ebuild which "fixes" this. Basically the last instruction for multi-user mode should read "chmod go-w /var/run/screen" rather than "chmod g-w /var/run/screen" like it does now.
Created attachment 21679 [details] strace logging of failing call I forgot this info in my other comment. Kernel ist 2.6.0-test11, otherwise up-to-date machine with ~x86, screen v4.00.01 (FAU) 18-Sep-03
I think this bug has reappeared, please reopen. The issue seems to be the non-existance of group 43: -rwxr-s--x 1 root 43 354592 2009-08-14 03:11 /usr/bin/screen drwxrwxr-x 4 root utmp 4096 2009-08-14 14:31 /var/run/screen/ (it really does not exist in /etc/group)
(In reply to comment #7) > -rwxr-s--x 1 root 43 354592 2009-08-14 03:11 /usr/bin/screen Hm, since it has been quite a while since screen was emerged, it could also be that the missing group was caused by something (portage?) renumbering utmp, or similar. So probably not necessary to reopen, unless someone else also stumbles upon this.
