Re: Summary: Latest GNUstep/Etoile on Solaris non-root user problem

[Yen-Ju Chen]

On 8/3/07, Andreas Höschler <ahoesch@smartsoft.de> wrote:
> Hi all,
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> I got this problem sorted out. It had (of course) nothing to do with
> Solaris but with wrong file permissions. Here is the long story:
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> Note, I am installing as root for Etoile to be used by all users:
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>         cd /usr/src
>         ls -l
>         total 104704
>         -rw-r--r--   1 root     root     53565440 Aug  3 09:01 etoile-0.2.tar
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> I didn' t see  in the first place that these file permissions are
> rather uncommon (never seen this before in any sources tar archive I
> downloaded).
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>         tar xvf etoile-0.2.tar
>         ls -l
>         total 104706
>         drwx--x--x   8 502      502          512 Jul 28 21:43 Etoile-0.2
>         -rw-r--r--   1 root     root     53565440 Aug  3 09:01 etoile-0.2.tar
>
>         ls -l Etoile-0.2/
>         -rw-------   1 502      502         2672 Jul 28 21:38 ANNOUNCE
>         drwx--x--x   3 502      502          512 Jul 28 19:18 Build
>         drwx--x--x   8 502      502          512 Jul 28 19:19 Bundles
>         -rw-------   1 502      502        16902 Jul 28 19:19 ChangeLog
>         drwx--x--x  19 502      502          512 Jul 28 19:18 Frameworks
>         -rw-------   1 502      502         1406 Jul 28 19:19 GNUmakefile
>         -rw-------   1 502      502         5800 Jul 28 19:19 INSTALL
>         -rw-------   1 502      502         1527 Jul 28 19:19 INSTALL.Ubuntu
>         drwx--x--x   4 502      502          512 Jul 28 19:19 Languages
>         -rw-------   1 502      502         2179 Jul 28 19:19 README
>         drwx--x--x   5 502      502          512 Jul 28 19:19 Services
>         -rw-------   1 502      502         9167 Jul 28 19:19 etoile.make
>         -rwx------   1 502      502         6138 Jul 28 19:19 setdown.sh
>         -rwx------   1 502      502         9819 Jul 28 19:19 setup.sh
>
> Someone has a rather uncommon umask here. :-)  This made some of the
> files/resources of the installed stuff unreadable by a normal user.
>

  I guess we never pay attention to the file permission
  since most of developers get the code from svn. :)

> and Etoile fun was over.
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> My hints for installing Etoile on Solaris:
>
> •Forget setup.sh and set things up manually (see below)
> • Check file permissions; do chmod -R a+r to the Etoile source tree
> after deflating Etoile-0.2.tar
> • You need a bunch of fixes to the source tree to get Etoile-0.2
> compiled under Solaris (too many for this mail). If anyone is
> interested drop me a note.

  If you can send me the diff,
  I can put them in as much as possible.
  It may ease the problem next time.

  Yen-Ju

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> Hopefully this is of help to someone. Thanks to the Etoile team for
> this great software. Logout is not working for me yet (still have to do
> pkill etoile), but I suppose this is a minor issue and probably easy to
> fix. In one of the versions I had tried out I saw tool tips popping up
> on the screen (probably to tell me which application my mouse pointer
> is hovering over). Unfortunately they never disappeared again. In my
> current install they luckily do not popup. However, there is no way for
> me to determine which icon in AZDock refers to which application. The
> contextual menu has no title as it should according to Yen-Ju. :-( But
> this is a rather minor issue. I am a happy user of Etoile now (time to
> get rid of Window Maker) and strongly recommend everybody - that not
> yet dared - to check it out. :-)
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> Regards,
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>    Andreas
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