Re: Permission error

On 14/06/2022 13:56, Pierre Labastie ([email protected] via 
alfs-discuss Mailing List) wrote:
> On Tue, 2022-06-14 at 13:13 +0200, Dragan wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have tryed to build alfs in VM running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and 22.04 LTS.
>> I'm getting following Permission denied.
>>
>> I have just entered sudo authorisation and jhalfs and sources
>> directories have been created and then...
>>
>> Are you happy with these optimization settings? yes/no (no): yes
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> [sudo] password for lfs:
>> mkdir: cannot create directory '/lfs/jhalfs/logs': Permission denied
>>
>> <jhalfs> exit
>> make: *** [Makefile:11: all] Error 1
>> lfs@draak:~/jhalfs$
>>
>> lfs@draak:~/jhalfs$ ls -all /lfs
>> total 16
>> drwxrwxrwx  4 lfs  lfs  4096 Jun 14 08:47 .
>> drwxr-xr-x 23 lfs  lfs  4096 Jun 14 07:36 ..
>> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Jun 14 08:47 jhalfs
>> drwxrwxrwt  2 root root 4096 Jun 14 08:47 sources
>> lfs@draak:~/jhalfs$
>>
>> The user lfs have as I believe all neccesary rights. See attached file
>> for jhalfs configuration and somme additional info.
>>
>> The problem appears not to be limited to user lfs.
>>
>> I'm guesing that script at that point drops sudo authorisation and tries
>> to make subdirectory in jhalfs as user lfs who have no rights to write
>> in directory owned by root.
>>
>> Any suggestion wil be appreciated.
> Hmm, You shouldn't create any directory inside /lfs. jhalfs will take care of
> creating them. Also, /lfs should be owned by root, and there is no need to have
> an lfs user before starting jhalfs: the user will be created by the tool.
>
> What I suggest:
> sudo rm -rf /lfs/*
>
> (unless there is a lost+found directory in /lfs, in which case you should keep
> that one).
>
> Then run make in the cloned jhalfs dir. Answer the questions. Be sure to tick
> "Rebuild files" in "General Settings", and of course to set the Build directory
> to /lfs.
>
> Pierre
> PS: There was no attached file. But I do not think they are needed at this
> stage.

Thanks for reply.

I have chowned lfs to root:root, remowed user lfs and retrived jhalfs 
from git.

It's building now without asking me for sudo authorisation! Probably 
inherited athorisation because of previously

And I just got another error:

  Building target 602-ncurses
  [+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++|make: *** 
[Makefile:342: 602-ncurses] Error 1
make: Leaving directory '/lfs/jhalfs'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:102: mk_LUSER] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory '/lfs/jhalfs'
ERROR:  Error 2 at common/common-functions line 38!
<jhalfs> exit
make: *** [Makefile:11: all] Error 2
draak@draak-VirtualBox:~/jhalfs$

Dragan

PS: Strange that there was no attachemnt. I can see 1 attachment: alfs 
3,1 KB in my inbouund mail!

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