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

[From: Darren Enns]

Vladislav Grinchenko wrote:
> Looks like you need to install targets in addition to scratchbox itself.
> You need at least i386, but most likely would need ARMEL to build native
> binaries. If you have them installed, run 'sb-menu' and select a target.
> Selecting a target configures scratchbox by making a number of symbolic
> links. 
>
> I run maemo SDK on Fedoras since day one with no problems so far.
>
> If you have any more questions, feel free to ask.
>
> --Vlad
>
>
> On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 12:25 -0500, Darren Enns wrote:
>   
>> 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
>>
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>   
Hello!  I have just sent a reply to my previous reply :)  I have gotten 
a bit further by 'cheating', but since you are a Fedora user, can you 
confirm to me the things that I did (on my own) to 'fix' my problems?  
e.g. what were/are *your* permissions on the '/tmp' directory?  Did you 
have to 'zap' the '/proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr' file too?

BTW, I do have the i386 targets installed/configured (as per the docs).  
Oh, the hoops that us non-Debian people have to jump through! :)

Dare