Hey devs, a colleague of mine wanted to build gentoo 1.4_rc1 from strage3, but he was unable to do that because of this very weird error. First of all i should mention that he installs gentoo on a seperate ext3 partition, using mandrake as a hostsystem. Installation procedure so far: 1) grabbed the pentium3 stage3 from ibiblio 2) unpacked the stage3 to /mnt/gentoo 3) modified /mnt/gentoo/etc/wget/wgetrc for proxy settings 4) grabbed the latest portage snapshot from ibiblio 5) unpacked that to /mnt/gentoo/usr 6) chroot, env-update, source /etc/profile 7) set the timezone 8) "emerge gentoo-sources" emerge downloaded the sources just fine, but it broke after that: # emerge gentoo-sources [...] >>> md5 ;-) linux-2.4.19.tar.bz2 >>> md5 ;-) patches-2.4.19-gentoo-r9.tar.bz2 /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: /dev/null: Permission denied /usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: /dev/null: Permission denied >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking linux-2.4.19.tar.bz2 >>> Unpacking patches-2.4.19-gentoo-r9.tar.bz2 Current kernel version is 2.4.19 Scanning patch directory: '.' Checking 00_O1-scheduler (plain text format)... patch: **** Can't create file /root/tmp/ppz5SF1w : Permission denied cat: write error: Broken pipe can't be applied. Please modify the patch. patch: **** Can't create file /root/tmp/po3rvBaf : Permission denied !!! ERROR: The ebuild did not complete successfully. !!! Function src_unpack, Line -78, Exitcode 2 !!! (no error message) First of all, /dev/null is not writable from inside the chroot. Really weird. You can't even "echo" stuff into it. So we ran the following commands in a normal, non-chrooted environment: # ll /mnt/gentoo/dev/null crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 Sep 11 23:32 /mnt/gentoo/dev/null # ll /dev/null crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 Jan 1 1970 /dev/null The permissions seem to be okay. The second problem is that packages which require patching (like "vim" or "gentoo-sources") fail - packages w/o patches (like "strace") can be merged just fine. I dont get why emerge accesses /root/tmp - the permission denied is most likely the sandbox, no? Here's the uname -a from mandrake: # uname -a Linux 2.4.8-26mdk #1 Sun Sep 23 17:06:39 CEST 2001 i686 unknown I'm kinda lost. Trying to install a stage2 as i write this, but i suppose that this wont work either. -phoen][x-
It looks like some sandbox issue, maybe you have a clue about it Martin? If you need additional information, tell me what you need and i'll get it. -phoen][x-
# set | grep TMP And paste. As for the /dev/null problems ... not sure, maybe a mandrake kernel thing ? Could he maybe boot off a gentoo livecd or something and try again ?
Hmm, well he installed mandrake 9.0 rc3 last friday. I was curious, so i asked him if he could chroot and try to install gentoo from stage3 again. It worked flawlessy. It looks like this is a mandrake 8 issue - i dont have mandrake 8 around so feel free to find a tester and add him to the CC-list. Sorry for not being able to run your command, Martin. -phoen][x-
Okay, i met this user (mushmoro4e) in #gentoo who had the same problem. You where right martin, the mdk TMP/TMPDIR vars are kinda messed up. He fixed this problem with "export TMP=/tmp ; export TMPDIR=/tmp". Maybe we should add that to portage? -phoen][x-
One is taken care of, the other I missed. Will fix now, thanks.
