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roan
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 Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2002 6:26 pm Post subject: Access denied when making /var/tmp/portage a symlink |
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I ran out of space on my / partition where also /var is. The ebuild scripts build all packages in /var/tmp/portage (I think). So I made this directory to be a symlink to a directory on another partition. Then the ebuild scripts got access denied when trying to unpack the source. It didn't give up though, it just unpacked it to another location (/var/tmp/xc instead of /var/tmp/portage/xfree-4.2.0-r12/work/xc as it happens). This is the output when running emerge mozilla: (tries to update xfree86 first, why?).
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bash-2.05a# emerge mozilla
>>> emerge x11-base/xfree-4.2.0-r12 to /
>>> md5 ;-) X420src-1.tgz
>>> md5 ;-) X420src-2.tgz
>>> md5 ;-) X420src-3.tgz
>>> md5 ;-) freetype-2.0.9.tar.bz2
>>> md5 ;-) truetype.tar.gz
>>> md5 ;-) 4.2.0-xlib-i18n-module.patch
>>> md5 ;-) 4.2.0-zlib-security.patch
>>> md5 ;-) 4.2.0-libGLU-bad-extern.patch
>>> md5 ;-) xf86Wacom.c.gz
ACCESS DENIED mkdir: /misc/film/src/portage/xfree-4.2.0-r12/work
install: cannot create directory `/var/tmp/portage/xfree-4.2.0-r12/work: Permission denied
/usr/sbin/ebuild.sh: cd: /var/tmp/portage/xfree-4.2.0-r12/work: No such file or directory
>>> Unpacking source...
>>> Unpacking X420src-1.tgz
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and so on. /misc/film/src/portage/ is where the symlink is pointing to of course. Although the script gets access denied when creating /var/tmp/portage/xfree-4.2.0-r12/work, it happily creates the directories /var/tmp/portage/xfree-4.2.0-r12/ and /var/tmp/portage/xfree-4.2.0-r12/temp. I find this rather weird. The permissions haven't changed, I just moved the whole directory. Anybody who knows what the problem is? |
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delta407
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| Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2002 6:47 pm Post subject: |
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Why don't you just change your "PORTAGE_TMPDIR" to point to the new location? (Add it to /etc/make.conf.)
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roan
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| Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2002 7:06 pm Post subject: |
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Thats the easy way.... 
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dmcaul
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| Posted: Thu Jul 11, 2002 7:06 pm Post subject: |
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Is the partition the symlink points to mounted -noexec? IIRC that will break things during builds.
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roytoo
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| Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 3:20 pm Post subject: |
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delta407's response works wonderfully, just two things to keep in mind:
1. It seems that the top portage tmp directory must be named "portage".
2. PORTAGE_TMPDIR should be set to point to the folder containing the portage tmp directory, not the directory itself.
(i.e. if you moved your portage tmp to /home/portage, set PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/home")
Thanks delta407,
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Shovas
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In case anyone else has this problem, the error (for searching the forums):
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crimson portage # emerge ut2004
Calculating dependencies ...done!
>>> emerge (1 of 1) games-fps/ut2004-3339 to /
>>> md5 files ;-) ChangeLog
>>> md5 files ;-) metadata.xml
>>> md5 files ;-) ut2004-3355.ebuild
>>> md5 files ;-) ut2004-3339.ebuild
>>> md5 files ;-) files/ut2004.xml
>>> md5 files ;-) files/digest-ut2004-3355
>>> md5 files ;-) files/digest-ut2004-3339
>>> md5 src_uri ;-) ut2004-lnxpatch3339.tar.bz2
>>> md5 src_uri ;-) ut2004-ecebonuspack.tar.bz2
* Do you accept the terms of this license (ut2003)? [yes/no] yes
* The installed game takes about 6.8GB of space!
* Found CD #1 root at /home/_public/ut2004/disk1
ACCESS DENIED mkdir: /home/__root__/var/tmp/portage/ut2004-3339/work
install: cannot create directory `/var/tmp/portage/ut2004-3339/work': Permission denied
!!! ERROR: games-fps/ut2004-3339 failed.
!!! Function dyn_unpack, Line 678, Exitcode 1
!!! Failed to create dir '/var/tmp/portage/ut2004-3339/work'
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message.
--------------------------- ACCESS VIOLATION SUMMARY ---------------------------
LOG FILE = "/tmp/sandbox-games-fps_-_ut2004-3339-13226.log"
mkdir: /home/__root__/var/tmp/portage/ut2004-3339/work
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And, yes, it was after moving /var/tmp/portage to /home/__root__/var/tmp/portage and symlinking only the /portage/ directory back to /var/tmp.
The solution was to move the entire /var/tmp to /home/__root__/var and symlink that back to /var.
Hope that helps people who need more space.
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