[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 04:29:18PM -0700, Bob Miller wrote: > > > Every time I try to emerge kde-base/kdebase-3.1.2, it > > blows up with many occurrences of this message. > > > > ACCESS DENIED mkdir: /root/.kde > > trying to create local folder: Permission denied > > failed to create /root/.kde/share/config/ > > > > Anybody know about this error? Any good ideas for working around it? > > The first thing I would try would be to log in as root (don't su) at the > console and try the emerge from there. I've noticed this issue > occasionally, most notably on a previous version of vim, and this fixed > it. As Roger said, you might also try creating the directory. Also, if > you are using the new functionality of the portage group that allows > non-root users to do an emerge, it won't allow you to create files under > /root.
I manually created /root/.kde/share/config/ and made it world-writable. (Also chmod'ed /root to drwxr-xr-x.) It's gotten past the place where it failed before, so it may be okay. If that doesn't work, I'll try logging in as root. I had been using sudo. Thanks... -- Bob Miller K<bob> kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
