Bug 46689

Summary:	root needs write permissions in i.e. /home
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	E. Papegaaij <epapegaaij>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	radek
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description E. Papegaaij 2004-04-03 07:21:57 UTC

On my system the /home directory is mounted over nfs. The server does not use 'no_root_squash'. This means root will become nobody when accessing the nfs mount, so root can't write to /home. In my opinion this is quite normal with a nfs/nis setup. However it prevents sys-apps/baselayout from emerging properly. It bails out with the following error:
!!! Failed to chown/chmod/unlink in movefile()
!!! /home/.keep
!!! [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: '/home/.keep'


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Remove write permissions from /home
2. emerge baselayout
Actual Results:

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2004-04-04 15:53:01 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 9849 ***