From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ronald G Minnich Subject: install issues Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 08:44:57 -0600 Message-ID: <44BBA269.6020002@lanl.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: xen-devel List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org xen shares a problem with a lot of python installers: if you build the xen on a file system mounted with root squash, the install fails: if [ -r System.map -a -x /sbin/depmod ]; then /sbin/depmod -ae -F System.map -b / -r 2.6.16.13-xen; fi make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/rminnich/src/xen-3.0-testing.hg/linux-2.6.16.13-xen' make -C linux-2.6.16.13-xen ARCH=i386 INSTALL_PATH=/ vmlinuz make[3]: Entering directory `/home/rminnich/src/xen-3.0-testing.hg/linux-2.6.16.13-xen' rm: cannot remove `.kernelrelease': Permission denied make[3]: *** [.kernelrelease] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/rminnich/src/xen-3.0-testing.hg/linux-2.6.16.13-xen' make[2]: *** [build] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/rminnich/src/xen-3.0-testing.hg' make[1]: *** [linux-2.6-xen-install] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/rminnich/src/xen-3.0-testing.hg' make: *** [install-kernels] Error 1 This is a particularly annoying attribute of many python install tools, that you can't run it as root and you can't NOT run it as root. I don't know how this ought to be fixed, but note that (e.g.) linux install gets this one right. thanks ron