From: "R. G. Newbury" <newbury@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: "Permission Denied" error for root user when perms are 0775?
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>Weird problem.
>I downloaded an svn version of mythtv, cd'd to the folder, and tried to
>run './configure --help', Got a 'Permission Denied' error.
>I am root and the permissions were and are 0775...chmod changes
>nothing, even trying 0777.
>Does anyone have any idea what is going on? The directory is on a 'rw'
>partition, since I just downloaded to it, using a script. But the
>configure script itself will not run. I changed the first line from:
>#!/bin/sh to #!/bin/bash > no change.
More data points. I don't think this has anything to do with the
'configure' script. It's an error in what bash is running. There is
something wrong with the libraries, I think.
Backing up a little. This is a brand new install of Fedora 8. I ended up
wiping everything from the prior setup, which had become messed up
sometime in the 70 days mythtv was up.
Re-formatted and installed everything, including taking 4 hours for the
'yum update' and loading the mythtv dependencies. Then a new svn of
mythtv. But bash will not run the configure script.
I tried using the fedora recovery route and THIS IS WEIRD! If I ran
'./mnt/sysimage/keep/mythtv/configure --help' IT RAN. So the bash +
libraries of the recovery environment, ARE DIFFERENT than the installed
versions. It is almost as if the installed 'root' login is not a
privileged user. (Makes no difference if I try a different session, with
the 'mythtv' user. It IS something in bash or the libraries it calls.
SO How do I track down what is wrong? On a quick pass, all of the
libraries appear to have the same (correct???) permissions. If there a
trace or something which can find the breakdown? (Google isn't too
useful at this level).
More data. Selinux is disabled. For this, the firewall was disabled.
Booted into run-level 5, using a terminal, kernel is new, updated to
2.6.25-??? 69...latest. As noted, this is a brand new bare-metal (well,
the metal that counts) install.
Geoff
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