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Debian bug tracking system administrator (administrator, Debian Bugs database) -------------------------------------- Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 24 Aug 2005 08:31:19 +0000 >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Aug 24 01:31:19 2005 Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from mtagate1.uk.ibm.com [195.212.29.134] by spohr.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 1 (Debian)) id 1E7qfH-0002Rj-00; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 01:31:19 -0700 Received: from d06nrmr1407.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (d06nrmr1407.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com [9.149.38.185]) by mtagate1.uk.ibm.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j7O8UMA2259064 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 08:30:23 GMT Received: from d06av01.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (d06av01.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com [9.149.37.212]) by d06nrmr1407.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (8.12.10/NCO/VERS6.7) with ESMTP id j7O8ULsL283464 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 09:30:21 +0100 Received: from d06av01.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d06av01.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (8.12.11/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j7O8ULeH017078 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 09:30:21 +0100 Received: from sihl.zurich.ibm.com (sihl.zurich.ibm.com [9.4.16.232]) by d06av01.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j7O8UJqN017020; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 09:30:19 +0100 Received: from localhost.localdomain (sig-9-145-248-159.de.ibm.com [9.145.248.159]) by sihl.zurich.ibm.com (AIX4.3/8.9.3p2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA65704; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 10:30:18 +0200 Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" From: Chris Vanden Berghe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: linux-source-2.6.12: permission denied when doing 'make menuconfig' X-Mailer: reportbug 3.16 Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 10:30:15 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by mtagate1.uk.ibm.com id j7O8UMA2259064 Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on spohr.debian.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-8.0 required=4.0 tests=BAYES_00,HAS_PACKAGE autolearn=no version=2.60-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 Package: linux-source-2.6.12 Version: 2.6.12-5 Severity: normal I get a permission denied error when trying to run 'make menuconfig' on a= clean kernel source: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt/hd2/usr/src$ sudo apt-get install linux-source-2.6.12 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Suggested packages: libncurses-dev libqt3-mt-dev The following NEW packages will be installed: linux-source-2.6.12 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/36,5MB of archives. After unpacking 36,5MB of additional disk space will be used. Reading package fields... Done Reading package status... Done Retrieving bug reports... Done Selecting previously deselected package linux-source-2.6.12. (Reading database ... 155438 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking linux-source-2.6.12 (from .../linux-source-2.6.12_2.6.12-5_all.= deb) ... Setting up linux-source-2.6.12 (2.6.12-5) ... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src$ tar xvjf linux-source-2.6.12.tar.bz2 .... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt/hd2/usr/src$ ln -s linux-source-2.6.12 linux [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt/hd2/usr/src$ cd linux [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt/hd2/usr/src/linux$ make menuconfig HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep scripts/basic/fixdep.c: In function =E2=80=98parse_config_file=E2=80=99: scripts/basic/fixdep.c:245: warning: pointer targets in passing argument = 1 of =E2=80=98use_config=E2=80=99 differ in signedness scripts/basic/fixdep.c: In function =E2=80=98parse_dep_file=E2=80=99: scripts/basic/fixdep.c:299: warning: pointer targets in passing argument = 1 of =E2=80=98__builtin_strchr=E2=80=99 differ in signedness scripts/basic/fixdep.c:299: warning: pointer targets in assignment differ= in signedness /bin/sh: scripts/basic/fixdep: Permission denied make[1]: *** [scripts/basic/fixdep] Error 1 make: *** [scripts_basic] Error 2 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt/hd2/usr/src/linux$ groups vbc adm disk lp dialout cdrom floppy audio src video plugdev staff games = thinkpad nvram camera scanner [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mnt/hd2/usr/src/linux$ sudo make menuconfig HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep scripts/basic/fixdep.c: In function =E2=80=98parse_config_file=E2=80=99: scripts/basic/fixdep.c:245: warning: pointer targets in passing argument = 1 of =E2=80=98use_config=E2=80=99 differ in signedness scripts/basic/fixdep.c: In function =E2=80=98parse_dep_file=E2=80=99: scripts/basic/fixdep.c:299: warning: pointer targets in passing argument = 1 of =E2=80=98__builtin_strchr=E2=80=99 differ in signedness scripts/basic/fixdep.c:299: warning: pointer targets in assignment differ= in signedness /bin/sh: scripts/basic/fixdep: Permission denied make[1]: *** [scripts/basic/fixdep] Error 1 make: *** [scripts_basic] Error 2 Cheers, Chris. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.12.t41-4 Locale: LANG=3Den_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=3Den_US.UTF-8 (charmap=3DUTF-8) Versions of packages linux-source-2.6.12 depends on: ii binutils 2.16.1-2 The GNU assembler, linker an= d bina ii bzip2 1.0.2-8 high-quality block-sorting f= ile co ii coreutils [fileutils] 5.2.1-2 The GNU core utilities Versions of packages linux-source-2.6.12 recommends: ii gcc 4:4.0.1-3 The GNU C compiler ii libc6-dev [libc-dev] 2.3.5-4 GNU C Library: Development L= ibrari ii make 3.80-11 The GNU version of the "make= " util -- no debconf information --------------------------------------- Received: (at 324817-done) by bugs.debian.org; 24 Aug 2005 09:48:45 +0000 >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Aug 24 02:48:45 2005 Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from ouagadougou.absurdistan.org [213.239.212.45] by spohr.debian.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 1 (Debian)) id 1E7rsC-0003E3-00; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 02:48:45 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ouagadougou.absurdistan.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD27C2A000E; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 11:48:12 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ouagadougou.absurdistan.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ouagadougou.absurdistan.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 15097-03; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 11:48:12 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (80-219-9-217.dclient.hispeed.ch [80.219.9.217]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ouagadougou.absurdistan.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AA992A000C; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 11:48:12 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 11:48:07 +0200 From: Chris Vanden Berghe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050802) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Horms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Bug#324817: linux-source-2.6.12: permission denied when doing 'make menuconfig' References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at absurdistan.org Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on spohr.debian.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.0 required=4.0 tests=BAYES_00,HAS_BUG_NUMBER autolearn=no version=2.60-bugs.debian.org_2005_01_02 Hi, > Another idea that springs to mind is that /mnt/hd2/usr/src is > in a partition mounted noexec. Thanks, turned out to be the nonexec problem indeed... I checked the permissions 5 times before submitting the bug report, but didn't know about this option. Thanks and sorry for the noise, Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]