Re: [Ltib] Unable to run ltib for very first time.

[Stuart Hughes]

Hi Ayewin,

NFS is likely causing your problem as temp files are written to 
_LTIB_PROJ_/tmp

I suspect rpm is trying to open the temp file as root and NFS will 
squash root permissions and so you will get this "permissions denied" 
message.

Regards, Stuart

Ayewin Oung wrote:
> Hi Thanks for the response.. I still got no joy, please see my in lines..
>
> One other info, which might be relevant is "/home" are mounted across 
> network via NFS, that shouldn't be issue normally.  Anyway, I'll keep 
> scratching my head..
>
> Ayewin
>
> On 30 January 2010 12:37, Stuart Hughes <address@hidden 
> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Ayewin,
>
>     I've not seen this before (and don't have this host type).  However
>     I do know others that run fine with this set-up (FC11 on dual core).
>      There's some kind of permissions problem (from the error message).
>
>     Here's a couple of ideas:
>
>     1/ Check to see if you have the file ~/.rpmmacros if so remove it
>     (unless you're actively using it).
>
>
> Check that, and there is no file/directory with that name, for that 
> matter no file/dir with "rpm"
>  
>
>
>     2/ Look for any other messages from SELinux when you tried to
>     install. If you see them you may have to change your SELinux setting
>     to permissive.
>
>
> I've double check that, all the SELinux is "disabled" from start anyway.
>
>
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> I've subscripted it and thought I sent the mail to mailing list, not 
> sure why its not accepting it.
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>
>
>     Regards, Stuart
>
>     Ayewin Oung wrote:
>
>         Hi
>
>         I'm trying to install ltib for the first time and it seems to go
>         far and stopped with following error, I've make sure that user
>         has full access rights as "root".  It seems, I'm missing
>         rpm-fs-xxxxx.  Could someone tell me how can resolve this ?
>
>         Thanks in advance.
>
>         Machine Config:
>         ============
>         Linux Pagan 2.6.30.10-105.2.4.fc11.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jan 19
>         22:46:59 UTC 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
>
>         Error Message from host_config.log
>         ==========================
>         sudo rpm --root / --dbpath /tmp/rpm-engineer/rpmdb -e
>         --allmatches --nodeps  --define '_tmppath
>         /home/engineer/ltib/tmp' rpm-fs 2>/dev/null
>         sudo rpm --root / --dbpath /tmp/rpm-engineer/rpmdb --ignorearch
>         -ivh --force --nodeps --excludedocs  --define '_tmppath
>         /home/engineer/ltib/tmp'
>         /tmp/rpm-engineer/RPMS/x86_64/rpm-fs-4.0.4-1.x86_64.rpm
>         Preparing...              
>          ##################################################
>         rpm-fs                    
>          ##################################################
>         error: Couldn't create temporary file for
>         %post(rpm-fs-4.0.4-1.x86_64): Permission denied
>         Died at ./ltib line 2451.
>         traceback:
>          main::check_rpm_setup:2451
>          main::host_checks:1436
>           main:547
>
>
>         Started: Fri Jan 29 20:34:31 2010
>         Ended:   Fri Jan 29 20:39:22 2010
>         Elapsed: 291 seconds
>
>
>         Build Failed
>
>
>
>
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