Bug 18237 – sandbox violation for gnome-extra/gnome-utils-2.2.1 (mkdir /root/.gconfd)

• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 17380
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description chouser (RETIRED) 2003-03-26 13:01:05 UTC]

If the root user doesn't have a .gconfd directory in his home dir, 
gnome-extra/gnome-utils-2.2.1.ebuild generates a sandbox violation trying to
create it.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. mv /root/.gconfd /root/old.gconfd
2. ebuild /usr/portage/gnome-extra/gnome-utils/gnome-utils-2.2.1.ebuild merge

Actual Results:  
--------------------------- ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY ---------------------------
LOG FILE = "/tmp/sandbox-gnome-utils-2.2.1-24997.log"
 
mkdir:     /root/.gconfd
mkdir:     /root/.gconfd
mkdir:     /root/.gconfd
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Expected Results:  
A successful merge.

A workaround appears to be creating a .gconf dir for the root user manually:

mkdir /root/.gconfd

[Comment 1 foser (RETIRED) 2003-03-26 18:12:52 UTC]

probably a dup

you don't give your 'emerge info' :(

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 17380 ***

[Comment 2 Mike Gardiner (RETIRED) 2003-06-17 07:09:36 UTC]

the following attachments are an updated ebuild, and a patch against the offending Makefile.in's in the source. there does exist a configure option to --disable-schema-install, which you'd hope would fix the problems as in bug 17380,  however unlike in that bug --disable-schema-install isnt implemented properly (or at all) in the Makefile.in's for gnome-utils which is why the patch is required.

please refer to the related bug 17380 for more information.

[Comment 3 Mike Gardiner (RETIRED) 2003-06-17 07:10:48 UTC]

Created attachment 13412 [details]
updated ebuild, with sandbox fix

[Comment 4 Mike Gardiner (RETIRED) 2003-06-17 07:11:20 UTC]

Created attachment 13413 [details, diff]
required patch for updated ebuild