Hi Stephen - and thanks! On Saturday 10 November 2012 14:31:57 Stephen Powell wrote: > My guess is that this is a permissions issue. Is your id a member > of group src?
Yes! [snip] > (1) The directory /usr/src must be owned by user root and by group src. It wasn't, and now is. > (2) The group (src) must have read, write, and execute permissions on > /usr/src. Again, they didn't, and now have. > (3) The group (src) must have the "set group id" permission on > /usr/src. Again, it hadn't and now has. > (4) Your non-root userid must be a member of group src. yes - see below > (5) The output of the "groups" command, when issued by your non-root > userid, must list "src" as one of the groups. Please review the > "Introduction" section of the document. Yes, I had understood that bit in the Introduction, which I had read and, I thought, understood. :-( Anyhow, after I did all that, I ran $ tar -xjf linux-source-3.2.tar.bz2 and it extracted the files correctly and created the directory linux-source-3.2 Thank you very much, Stephen. :-) Now, back to your marvellous tome. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201211101717.56332.lisi.re...@gmail.com
