613228 – sys-apps/memtest86: symlink usage doesn't work on FAT filesystems

Bug 613228 - sys-apps/memtest86: symlink usage doesn't work on FAT filesystems

Summary: sys-apps/memtest86: symlink usage doesn't work on FAT filesystems

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages

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Reported:	2017-03-19 15:40 UTC by Eugene Cormier
Modified:	2017-03-20 07:21 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

See Also:	382757
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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