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

[From: Darren Enns]

Eero Tamminen wrote:
> HI,
>
> ext Darren Enns 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'?
>
> I wonder whether your Scratchbox is properly set up.
> For example on my (Debian Etch) machine:
> ------- outside sbox -------------
> $ mount |grep tmp|grep scratch
> /tmp on /home/scratchbox/users/sbuser/tmp type none (rw,bind)
>
> $ ls -ld /tmp/
> drwxrwxrwt 18 root root 20480 2008-10-24 15:36 /tmp/
> -------- inside sbox -------------
> [sbox-maemo4-armv5: ~] > ls -ld /tmp/
> drwxrwxrwt  18 root root 20480 Oct 24 15:36 /tmp/
> ----------------------------------
>
> Is your Scratchbox /tmp bind-mounted from the system /tmp?
>
> (This is normally done by the Scratchbox init script at bootup)
>
>
>     - Eero
>
Well, taking note that I had already 'manually' fixed my '/tmp' problem 
-- leaving it more of a mystery now than anything else -- to answer your 
question: yes, it does appear as though it was being mounted properly:

/tmp on /mnt/sda3/maemo/scratchbox/users/dmenns/tmp type none (rw,bind)

Thanks

Dare