On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Bill Crawford wrote: > File "/home/bill/rpm/tmp/anaconda-7.2.90//usr/lib/anaconda/partitioning.py", line 1900, in partitionObjectsInitialize > partitions.setFromDisk(diskset) > File "/home/bill/rpm/tmp/anaconda-7.2.90//usr/lib/anaconda/partitioning.py", line 1067, in setFromDisk > labels = diskset.getLabels() > File "/home/bill/rpm/tmp/anaconda-7.2.90//usr/lib/anaconda/partitioning.py", line 1517, in getLabels > label = isys.readExt2Label(node) > File "/usr/lib/anaconda/isys.py", line 365, in readExt2Label > makeDevInode(device, "/tmp/disk") > File "/usr/lib/anaconda/isys.py", line 237, in makeDevInode > _isys.mkdevinode(name, fn) > SystemError: (1, 'Operation not permitted') > > I'm also a little concerned by those filenames (picked up from the > package build process, for some reason) ... This is because anaconda doesn't use the /dev/* entries which don't yet exist, but makes its own device node files before doing I/O on them. You need root to be able to do that. -- Charlie Brady charlieb@xxxxxxxxxxx Lead Product Developer Network Server Solutions Group http://www.e-smith.com/ Mitel Networks Corporation http://www.mitel.com/ Phone: +1 (613) 368 4376 or 564 8000 Fax: +1 (613) 564 7739
