Re: [gentoo-user] zfs emerge failure (solved)

2017-09-26 Thread John Blinka
Rich Freeman had the right clue. Some time ago, after successfully installing zfs, I changed root's umask to 0027. This had the effect of changing the permissions on /lib/modules/X.Y.Z-gentoo to drwxr-x--- on a subsequent kernel upgrade. This prevents emerge (once it switches to user:group

Re: [gentoo-user] zfs emerge failure

2017-08-23 Thread John Blinka
On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 7:13 PM, John Blinka wrote: > On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 6:54 PM, John Covici wrote: > >> What is your umask? I had troubles like this when I had too >> aggressive umask of I think 027 rather than 022. > > It is indeed 027, and

Re: [gentoo-user] zfs emerge failure

2017-08-23 Thread John Blinka
On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 7:14 PM, John Blinka wrote: > On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 6:51 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: >> >> Yes, and in fact it is in the output when emerge fails: >> /var/tmp/portage/sys-kernel/spl-0.7.1/work/spl-0.7.1/config.log > Digging into

Re: [gentoo-user] zfs emerge failure

2017-08-15 Thread John Blinka
On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 6:51 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > > Yes, and in fact it is in the output when emerge fails: > /var/tmp/portage/sys-kernel/spl-0.7.1/work/spl-0.7.1/config.log Ah-ha! I see it now. That['s valuable, and I'll take a closer look. Thanks! John

Re: [gentoo-user] zfs emerge failure

2017-08-15 Thread John Blinka
On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 6:54 PM, John Covici wrote: > What is your umask? I had troubles like this when I had too > aggressive umask of I think 027 rather than 022. It is indeed 027, and I wondered whether that might have been what was behind the error, hence I tried

Re: [gentoo-user] zfs emerge failure

2017-08-15 Thread John Covici
On Tue, 15 Aug 2017 18:46:59 -0400, John Blinka wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 6:04 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > > First, I appreciate your thoughts and comments. > > > > > I suspect your sources have gotten messed up in some way. I've run > > into issues like this when I

Re: [gentoo-user] zfs emerge failure

2017-08-15 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 3:46 PM, John Blinka wrote: > > I think it would be informative if I could somehow see exactly what > commands are being run when the error occurs. Is there a way of doing > that? > Yes, and in fact it is in the output when emerge fails:

Re: [gentoo-user] zfs emerge failure

2017-08-15 Thread John Blinka
On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 6:04 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: First, I appreciate your thoughts and comments. > > I suspect your sources have gotten messed up in some way. I've run > into issues like this when I do something like build a kernel with an > odd umask so that the portage

Re: [gentoo-user] zfs emerge failure

2017-08-15 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 5:19 PM, John Blinka wrote: > > Hope someone can shed some light on continuing emerge failures for zfs > since gnetoo-sources-4.4.39 and zfs-0.6.5.8. I was able to install > that version of zfs with that kernel last November on one of my > machines,

[gentoo-user] zfs emerge failure

2017-08-15 Thread John Blinka
Hi, Gentoo, Hope someone can shed some light on continuing emerge failures for zfs since gnetoo-sources-4.4.39 and zfs-0.6.5.8. I was able to install that version of zfs with that kernel last November on one of my machines, but have been unable to upgrade zfs since then, or to install it in any