Bug 613228

Summary:	sys-apps/memtest86: symlink usage doesn't work on FAT filesystems
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Eugene Cormier <eugenecormier>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=382757
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Eugene Cormier 2017-03-19 15:40:10 UTC

emerging sys-apps/memtest86-4.3.7 fails with:
 * Your boot partition was detected as being mounted at /boot.
 * Files will be installed there for memtest86 to function correctly.
--- /boot/
--- /boot/memtest86/
>>> /boot/memtest86/memtest
!!! failed to properly create symlink:
!!! /boot/memtest86/memtest.bin -> memtest
!!! [Errno 1] Operation not permitted: b'memtest' -> b'/boot/memtest86/memtest.bin'
!!! Failed to move file.
!!! /boot/memtest86/memtest.bin -> memtest

this is the exact same error fixed recently in memtest86+ in this bug:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=382757

I got around this for now by installing the latest unstable memtest86+, but it does still need to be fixed for the other

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2017-03-20 07:21:54 UTC

memtest86-4.3.7-r1 installs memtest.bin & memtest as sep files

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=b2f095cc8a812ca6b9e57dafc2825b7041c41aec