[maemo-developers] Installing scratchbox on Fedora 8: PERMISSION PROBLEMS

[From: Darren Enns]

Fred wrote:
> Darren Enns a écrit :
>> Fred wrote:
>>> Eero Tamminen a écrit :
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> ext Darren Enns wrote:
>>>>> Today, I determined to 'once again' try to install 'scratchbox' on 
>>>>> my Fedora 8 machine.  I have now tried to do so twice today, with 
>>>>> the same final disappointing result when trying to run 'python2.5' 
>>>>> (after needing to install it with 'apt-get'):
>>>>>
>>>>> [sbox-N800: ~] > python2.5
>>>>> /scratchbox/tools/bin/misc_runner: /tmp/cputransp_dmenns.log: 
>>>>> Permission denied
>>>> Is this file writable by you?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     - Eero
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>>> Do you have SELinux enabled ?
>>>
>>> Fred
>> Hmmm...no, on my machine 'SELinux' appears to be disabled, but would 
>> that even have an effect 'inside' scratchbox while running the 'arm' 
>> emulator?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Dare
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>
> Your error shows a path outside of scratchbox ...
> I know I have a load of hair pulled out because of SELinux so ...
> But if SELinux is disabled ...
>
> Fred
You probably know better than me, but I think that the 'appearance' of a 
referral to a path outside scratchbox is just an illusion i.e. 
"/scratchbox" doesn't actually exist at the root level on my 'real' box 
as this appears.

It is interesting that on my Debian-based 'scratchbox' environment (on a 
different PC), the '/tmp' directory does have different (more 
permissive) permissions:

sbox-CHINOOK_ARMEL: ~ > ls -ld /tmp
drwxrwxrwt  7 root root 4096 Oct 23 12:16 /tmp

If there were some way for me to *really* sign into scratchbox as 
'root', maybe I could try to repair my Fedora operation.  However, I 
would imagine that there are lots of other people out there running 
scratchbox on Fedora, and can (hopefully) tell me what I have done wrong 
(or what they did to fix this).  Are you running Fedora yourself?  Can 
you check your '/tmp' permissions for me?

Thanks

Dare