Re: [Ltib] LTIB build errors (permission denied and too many levels of symbolic links)

[Erik Peterson]

Hi,

In my experience, the same user that installed needs to invoke ./ 
ltib.  For convenience we are using a fictitious user to call ./ltib.   
Otherwise you would need to recursively chown and chgrp all the files...

cheers,
~erik peterson
On Mar 13, 2008, at 12:29 PM, Stephens, Peter A. wrote:

> During build operations using LTIB I have a problem with permissions  
> and
> the number of levels of symbolic links.  It seems like LTIB wants a
> portion of the commands to build the root file system to be run as the
> root user, but this appears not to be happening.  Line 481 makes a  
> call
> to the function "mk_fs_image" defined in "Ltibutils.pm". I found out
> that the "rm -..." commands were not being called as root.  Thank  
> you in
> advance for your inputs.
>
> I am using Fedora 8 with ltib-mpc5121ads-20071210.
>
> ---------------------- The output from two subsequent runs is below
> ----------------------
>
> Run 1: After a "./ltib -m distclean" and "sudo rm -rf ./rootfs.tmp/*",
> and then running "./ltib --configure" I get:
>
>   Processing deployment operations
>   ==================================
>   making filesystem image file
>   staging directory is
> /home/hzqmrk/proj/ltib-mpc5121ads-20071210/rootfs.tmp
>   removing the boot directory and files
>   rm: cannot remove
> `/home/hzqmrk/proj/ltib-mpc5121ads-20071210/rootfs.tmp/boot/u- 
> boot.bin':
> Permission denied
>
>   ...
>
>   rm: cannot remove
> `/home/hzqmrk/proj/ltib-mpc5121ads-20071210/rootfs.tmp/boot/ 
> linux.config
> ': Permission denied
>   rm: cannot remove
> `/home/hzqmrk/proj/ltib-mpc5121ads-20071210/rootfs.tmp/boot/ 
> mpc5121ads.d
> tb': Permission denied
>   Died at ./ltib line 481, <> line 360.
>
>   Started: Tue Mar 11 17:15:09 2008
>   Ended:   Tue Mar 11 17:36:22 2008
>   Elapsed: 1273 seconds
>
>   Build Failed
>
>   Exiting on error or interrupt
>
> Run 2: Running "./ltib --configure" a second time gives:
>
>   Processing deployment operations
>   ==================================
>   making filesystem image file
>   staging directory is
> /home/hzqmrk/proj/ltib-mpc5121ads-20071210/rootfs.tmp
>   rm: cannot remove
> `/home/hzqmrk/proj/ltib-mpc5121ads-20071210/rootfs.tmp/bin/gzip': Too
> many levels of symbolic links
>   rm: cannot remove
> `/home/hzqmrk/proj/ltib-mpc5121ads-20071210/rootfs.tmp/bin/df': Too  
> many
> levels of symbolic links
>
>   ...
>
>   rm: cannot remove
> `/home/hzqmrk/proj/ltib-mpc5121ads-20071210/rootfs.tmp/bin/bash':
> Permission denied
>   rm: cannot remove
> `/home/hzqmrk/proj/ltib-mpc5121ads-20071210/rootfs.tmp/bin/chgrp': Too
> many levels of symbolic links
>
>   ...
>
>   rm: cannot remove
> `/home/hzqmrk/proj/ltib-mpc5121ads-20071210/rootfs.tmp/usr/bin/patch':
> Too many levels of symbolic links
>   rm: cannot remove
> `/home/hzqmrk/proj/ltib-mpc5121ads-20071210/rootfs.tmp/usr/bin/gst- 
> feedb
> ack': Permission denied
>
>   ...
>
>   rm: cannot remove
> `/home/hzqmrk/proj/ltib-mpc5121ads-20071210/rootfs.tmp/boot/ 
> bootable_ker
> nel': Too many levels of symbolic links
>   rm: cannot remove
> `/home/hzqmrk/proj/ltib-mpc5121ads-20071210/rootfs.tmp/boot/ 
> mpc5121ads.d
> tb': Permission denied
>   Died at ./ltib line 481, <> line 358.
>
>   Started: Thu Mar 13 13:17:59 2008
>   Ended:   Thu Mar 13 13:19:56 2008
>   Elapsed: 117 seconds
>
>   Build Failed
>
>   Exiting on error or interrupt
>
>
> Peter A. Stephens
> address@hidden
> 765-451-7074
>
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