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Re: Summary: Latest GNUstep/Etoile on Solaris non-root user problem
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Yen-Ju Chen |
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Re: Summary: Latest GNUstep/Etoile on Solaris non-root user problem |
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Fri, 3 Aug 2007 08:22:08 -0700 |
On 8/3/07, Andreas Höschler <ahoesch@smartsoft.de> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I got this problem sorted out. It had (of course) nothing to do with
> Solaris but with wrong file permissions. Here is the long story:
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> ************************************************************************
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> Note, I am installing as root for Etoile to be used by all users:
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> cd /usr/src
> ls -l
> total 104704
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 53565440 Aug 3 09:01 etoile-0.2.tar
>
> I didn' t see in the first place that these file permissions are
> rather uncommon (never seen this before in any sources tar archive I
> downloaded).
>
> tar xvf etoile-0.2.tar
> ls -l
> total 104706
> drwx--x--x 8 502 502 512 Jul 28 21:43 Etoile-0.2
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 53565440 Aug 3 09:01 etoile-0.2.tar
>
> ls -l Etoile-0.2/
> -rw------- 1 502 502 2672 Jul 28 21:38 ANNOUNCE
> drwx--x--x 3 502 502 512 Jul 28 19:18 Build
> drwx--x--x 8 502 502 512 Jul 28 19:19 Bundles
> -rw------- 1 502 502 16902 Jul 28 19:19 ChangeLog
> drwx--x--x 19 502 502 512 Jul 28 19:18 Frameworks
> -rw------- 1 502 502 1406 Jul 28 19:19 GNUmakefile
> -rw------- 1 502 502 5800 Jul 28 19:19 INSTALL
> -rw------- 1 502 502 1527 Jul 28 19:19 INSTALL.Ubuntu
> drwx--x--x 4 502 502 512 Jul 28 19:19 Languages
> -rw------- 1 502 502 2179 Jul 28 19:19 README
> drwx--x--x 5 502 502 512 Jul 28 19:19 Services
> -rw------- 1 502 502 9167 Jul 28 19:19 etoile.make
> -rwx------ 1 502 502 6138 Jul 28 19:19 setdown.sh
> -rwx------ 1 502 502 9819 Jul 28 19:19 setup.sh
>
> Someone has a rather uncommon umask here. :-) This made some of the
> files/resources of the installed stuff unreadable by a normal user.
>
I guess we never pay attention to the file permission
since most of developers get the code from svn. :)
> and Etoile fun was over.
> ************************************************************************
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> My hints for installing Etoile on Solaris:
>
> •Forget setup.sh and set things up manually (see below)
> • Check file permissions; do chmod -R a+r to the Etoile source tree
> after deflating Etoile-0.2.tar
> • You need a bunch of fixes to the source tree to get Etoile-0.2
> compiled under Solaris (too many for this mail). If anyone is
> interested drop me a note.
If you can send me the diff,
I can put them in as much as possible.
It may ease the problem next time.
Yen-Ju
>
>
> Hopefully this is of help to someone. Thanks to the Etoile team for
> this great software. Logout is not working for me yet (still have to do
> pkill etoile), but I suppose this is a minor issue and probably easy to
> fix. In one of the versions I had tried out I saw tool tips popping up
> on the screen (probably to tell me which application my mouse pointer
> is hovering over). Unfortunately they never disappeared again. In my
> current install they luckily do not popup. However, there is no way for
> me to determine which icon in AZDock refers to which application. The
> contextual menu has no title as it should according to Yen-Ju. :-( But
> this is a rather minor issue. I am a happy user of Etoile now (time to
> get rid of Window Maker) and strongly recommend everybody - that not
> yet dared - to check it out. :-)
>
> Regards,
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> Andreas
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