On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 03:27:53PM -0400, Frank Mori Hess wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm encountering some annoyances building (out-of-tree) modules on an NFS
> filesystem. The NFS filesystem is exported with the default root_squash
> option. When I build as a normal user, then su to root to do the final make
> modules_install, it fails with permission denied. For example,
> modules_install tries to delete all the files in the .tmp_versions
> subdirectory, or tries to write to Module.symvers, but the nfs root_squash
> prevents root from having any special write permissions. I've verified this
> problem with 2.6.18 and 2.6.20 kernels. It didn't happen with the old kernel
> I was using (2.6.8).
>
> Is there any reason that a "make modules_install" has to modify files in the
> source tree?
This should not happen. (I do not know the root_squash option but that should
not matter).
Can you please try:
make V=1 modules_install
and post the output.
Sam
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