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

[From: Darren Enns]

Felipe Contreras wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 8:40 PM, Darren Enns <darethehair at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> 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! :)
>>     
>
> Which version of maemo are you running?
>
> In the latest one you get useful messages telling you that you need to
> modify mmap_min_addr and vdso if needed.
>
> I haven't had any issues in Fedora 9 with Diablo.
>
>   
Thanks for your response (and from the others as well!).  You mentioned 
those two issues, but what about the problem I had with permissions on 
'/tmp'?

Hmmm...I believe that I am running the newest version (4.1.1?).  To be 
honest with you, I don't recall seeing messages to that effect, but they 
could have been there -- I was almost totally relying on the 
'INSTALL.TXT' that I found on the website where I was reading how to 
install this -- and it did not mention these 'gotchas'.

Oddly, even though I made progress, I eventually hit a brick wall.  I 
was able to install Python2.5, but I was not able to compile a python 
library (i.e. PyEphem) for it -- on both the 'ARM' and 'i386' side.  I 
was forced to return to my (awkward) Debian PC installation (Kubuntu) 
and got further there (although I had 'fun' there as well).  In the end, 
though, I did not accomplish my final goal -- I was able to start the 
Xephyr desktop in scratchbox, but in doing so the graphics (window) 
totally covered my CLI -- so I was not able to see the 'error messages' 
that I was hoping to see.

As well, the 'default' Python invoked is 2.3, and I was not sure how to 
make sure that 2.5 was the one being used when I ran Python programs on 
the Xephyr desktop emulator.

Anyone have any thoughts on these other issues?

Thanks

Dare