I reproduced this. 'make install' was killed due to a memory shortage but before it died it wrote out .racket. This happened somewhere while the scribble files were being processed.
$ find .racket .racket .racket/5.0.99.6 .racket/5.0.99.6/doc .racket/5.0.99.6/doc/handin-server .racket/5.0.99.6/doc/handin-server/in.sxref .racket/5.0.99.6/doc/handin-server/stamp.sxref .racket/5.0.99.6/doc/handin-server/out.sxref On 12/31/2010 02:44 PM, Jon Rafkind wrote: > Well I'm not sure when he will pop into irc again but I'll try to > reproduce this scenario. > > On 12/31/2010 02:43 PM, Robby Findler wrote: >> Probably whatever is writing to the preferences file should not be doing >> that. >> >> If he could send along whatever is in the .racket/ directory (and >> owned by root) that would be useful. >> >> Robby >> >> On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 1:38 AM, Jon Rafkind <[email protected]> wrote: >>> A user on IRC complained about an issue where after building and >>> installing racket (with 'sudo make install') he received the following >>> error upon starting drracket: >>> >>> Error saving preferences: open-output-file: cannot open output file: >>> "~/.racket/.LOCKracket-prefs.rktd" (Permission denied; errno=13) >>> >>> Apparently some part of the installation process writes to ~/.racket and >>> since he used 'sudo' it was with root privileges. Its worth noting that >>> if you use 'su -c make install' things work because 'su -c' changes >>> $HOME to /root whereas sudo does not. >>> >>> The user used 'sudo make install' because he passed >>> '--prefix=/usr/local' to configure and so expected things to install >>> there. I suppose this is a case of user error but its extremely subtle >>> so I wouldn't call it that. >>> >>> Maybe during installation ~/.racket shouldn't be used, and /tmp/racket >>> could be used instead or something? >>> _________________________________________________ >>> For list-related administrative tasks: >>> http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev >>> > _________________________________________________ > For list-related administrative tasks: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev _________________________________________________ For list-related administrative tasks: http://lists.racket-lang.org/listinfo/dev
