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Bug 662240 - www-client/firefox-61.0-r1 failing at configure: Permission denied: '/etc'
Summary: www-client/firefox-61.0-r1 failing at configure: Permission denied: '/etc'
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Mozilla Gentoo Team
URL: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t...
Whiteboard:
Keywords: UPSTREAM
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2018-07-27 09:48 UTC by Massimo Burcheri
Modified: 2020-10-04 18:02 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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emerge --info (emerge--info,9.39 KB, text/plain)
2018-07-27 10:02 UTC, Massimo Burcheri 		Details
emerge -pvq firefox::gentoo (file_662240.txt,1.82 KB, text/plain)
2018-07-27 10:03 UTC, Massimo Burcheri 		Details
/var/log/portage/www-client:firefox-61.0-r1:20180724-084437.log.gz (file_662240.txt,19.67 KB, text/plain)
2018-07-27 10:55 UTC, Massimo Burcheri 		Details
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Description Massimo Burcheri 2018-07-27 09:48:00 UTC 
www-client/firefox-61.0-r1 fails with Permission denied :'/etc' while firefox-60.1.0 works fine.

Reproducible by
# ebuild `equery w firefox-61.0-r1` clean configure

The build is done on a dedicated btrfs subvolume, but also fails on a 13GB tmpfs.

Investigating the sources it tries to read the gentoo-release which is readable:

# ls -ald / /etc /etc/gentoo-release 
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root  368 Jun 27 12:13 /
drwxr-x--x 1 root root 5248 Jul 27 10:52 /etc
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root   31 Jul 26 08:18 /etc/gentoo-release

ccache is active here, but it fails also with FEATURES="-ccache"
Comment 1 Massimo Burcheri 2018-07-27 10:02:05 UTC 
Created attachment 541198 [details]
emerge --info
Comment 2 Massimo Burcheri 2018-07-27 10:03:39 UTC 
Created attachment 541200 [details]
emerge -pvq firefox::gentoo
Comment 3 Massimo Burcheri 2018-07-27 10:55:16 UTC 
Created attachment 541202 [details]
/var/log/portage/www-client:firefox-61.0-r1:20180724-084437.log.gz
Comment 4 Alexander Tsoy 2018-08-02 06:28:08 UTC 
(In reply to Massimo Burcheri from comment #0)
> Investigating the sources it tries to read the gentoo-release which is
> readable:
> 
> # ls -ald / /etc /etc/gentoo-release 
> drwxr-xr-x 1 root root  368 Jun 27 12:13 /
> drwxr-x--x 1 root root 5248 Jul 27 10:52 /etc

/etc is not readable by non-root users, that's why the following code in distro.py fails:

basenames = os.listdir(_UNIXCONFDIR)
Comment 5 Massimo Burcheri 2018-08-02 06:48:28 UTC 
What is the correct permission for /etc?
Why does the older Firefox ebuild work?
Comment 6 Massimo Burcheri 2018-08-02 07:16:22 UTC 
I see, my drwxr-x--x on /etc is breaking the listdir.
This is the first ebuild since years failing with that. In my eyes drwxr-x--x is the better permission for /etc.
Firefox doesn't need to do the listdir, it could also just check for any file it expects there. Could the ebuild patch that in any way? The behaviour seems to be new in 61.0-r1.
Comment 7 Alexander Tsoy 2018-08-02 07:34:48 UTC 
BTW, this is fixed in newer pip:
https://github.com/pypa/pip/commit/270ea3af207273b4815d73b10e83b580387adeaf

The problem is that the pip is shipped as .whl package in the firefox tarball, so it would be hard to patch.
Comment 8 Massimo Burcheri 2018-08-02 07:53:28 UTC 
Thanks. So I revert the permission to my previous setting and wait for the next ebuild including the newer pip. Please keep this open until solved by the next ebuild.
Comment 9 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2018-09-27 20:54:16 UTC 
I requested a bump of bundled PIP upstream, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1494779
Comment 10 Thomas Deutschmann (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2020-10-04 18:02:20 UTC 
Fixed in firefox-72+