Bug 253552

Summary:	app-portage/elogviewer gives misleading error message if user is not in 'portage' group
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Michael <gent.8.madblock>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Paul Varner (RETIRED) <fuzzyray>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	trivial	CC:	tools-portage
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Michael 2009-01-03 14:15:59 UTC

It took me queite some time to figure out: When I tried to run elogviewer it showed the following errormessage:

You need to enable the elog feature by setting at least one of 
	PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES="info warn error log"
and
	PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM="save"
in /etc/make.conf

Read /etc/make.conf.example for more information

I checked my make.conf several times and re-organized it because I thought the check-function that parses my make.conf is broken or something. /var/log/portage/elog had all elogs just as I configured it.

Then I realized that the elogs directory rights are set to xx0, so only people in the group 'portage' can read the elogs.

A postinstall message or different errormessage of elogviewer would save other people who are as silly as me some time.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Michael 2009-09-11 12:55:43 UTC

I suggest:

You need to enable the elog feature by setting at least one of 
        PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES="info warn error log"
and
        PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM="save"
in /etc/make.conf
and make sure that your user is in the 'portage' group.

Read /etc/make.conf.example for more information

Comment 2 Mathias Laurin 2010-11-07 21:15:57 UTC

Corrected in 0.6.1.

Comment 3 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2010-11-09 01:17:48 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> Corrected in 0.6.1.

0.6.1 is in the tree now.