106061 – env-update needs better error message when user isn't root

Bug 106061 - env-update needs better error message when user isn't root

Summary: env-update needs better error message when user isn't root

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Portage team

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Blocks:	162453
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Reported:	2005-09-15 06:10 UTC by Rune Schjellerup
Modified:	2007-01-29 03:23 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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env-update.patch (env-update.patch,297 bytes, patch) 2005-09-15 11:38 UTC, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. (RETIRED)	Details \| Diff
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Description Rune Schjellerup 2005-09-15 06:10:10 UTC

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
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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.

Comment 1 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-09-15 11:38:57 UTC

Created attachment 68525 [details, diff]
env-update.patch

This simple patch should fix the problem.

Comment 2 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2007-01-29 03:23:17 UTC

This has been released in 2.1.2-r5.