Hi George, George Ng wrote: > I have removed the existing OSELAS.Toolchain-2011.03.1 by using > su > password: > > rm -fr OSELAS.Toolchain-2011.03.1 > > then > > [root@GeorgeNotebook opt]# tar xf OSELAS.Toolchain-2011.03.1.tar.bz2 > [root@GeorgeNotebook opt]# ls > FriendlyARM OSELAS.Toolchain-2011.03.1 OSELAS.Toolchain-2011.03.1.tar.bz2 > [root@GeorgeNotebook opt]# cd OSELAS.Toolchain-2011.03.1 > [root@GeorgeNotebook OSELAS.Toolchain-2011.03.1]# ptxdist select > ptxconfigs/arm-v4t-linux-gnueabi_gcc-4.5.2_glibc-2.13_binutils-2.21_kernel-2.6.36-sanitized.ptxconfig > > > ptxdist: error: refusing to run PTXdist as root
Running tools like PTXdist as root is evil. ;-) > I tried other terminal without login as root > > [GeorgeNotebook@GeorgeNotebook opt]$ cd OSELAS.Toolchain-2011.03.1 > [GeorgeNotebook@GeorgeNotebook OSELAS.Toolchain-2011.03.1]$ ptxdist select > ptxconfigs/arm-v4t-linux-gnueabi_gcc-4.5.2_glibc-2.13_binutils-2.21_kernel- >2.6.36-sanitized.ptxconfig > > ptxdist: error: cannot create logdir: > '/opt/OSELAS.Toolchain-2011.03.1/platform' > > I got the same error message again When you are doing this step as a regular user, PTXdist tries to run "sudo" to create the folder. Is this command available and configured on your host? Regards, Juergen -- Pengutronix e.K. | Juergen Beisert | Linux Solutions for Science and Industry | http://www.pengutronix.de/ |
