| Summary: | env-update needs better error message when user isn't root | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Rune Schjellerup <olberd> |
| Component: | [OLD] Core system | Assignee: | Portage team <dev-portage> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | f5d8fd51ed1e804c9e8d0357e8614e0493b06e96, phajdan.jr |
| Priority: | High | Keywords: | InVCS |
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
| Bug Depends on: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 162453 | ||
| Attachments: | env-update.patch | ||
Created attachment 68525 [details, diff]
env-update.patch
This simple patch should fix the problem.
This has been released in 2.1.2-r5. |
When the user hasn't permission to write /etc/ld.so.conf the error message is bad Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.env-update as a normal user 2. 3. Actual Results: bash-2.05b$ /usr/sbin/env-update && source /etc/profile PORTAGE_GPG_DIR is invalid. Removing gpg from FEATURES. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/sbin/env-update", line 11, in ? portage.env_update() File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 541, in env_update myfd=open(root+"etc/ld.so.conf","w") IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/ld.so.conf' Expected Results: An error message like the one emerge gives: bash-2.05b$ emerge fslkj PORTAGE_GPG_DIR is invalid. Removing gpg from FEATURES. emerge: root access required.