On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 02:45:42PM -0700, Daniel Schepler wrote: > > That's just plain weird. I'm not in a position to explore this for a > > few days, though, as my laptop hard disk has just died and it will be > > about a week before I can replace and reinstall it. > > > > Meanwhile, do you have any ideas why pbuilder should be saying that > > permissions to /dev/stdout and /dev/stderr are denied? > > The chrooted dpkg-buildpackage process started by pbuilder inherits the TTY > device you run pbuilder from as its stdout and stderr. That TTY is owned by > either root or by your actual login user, depending on how you started up the > root shell. So user 1234, which is the user dpkg-buildpackage is running as, > doesn't have access to open that TTY device. > > I haven't looked at epix-lib.sh in detail, but e.g. > echo Danger Will Robinson 1>&2 > should work whereas > echo Danger Will Robinson >/dev/stderr > wouldn't.
Oh crud :-( That sort of problem, then, is scattered throughout this package. I'll try to fix it next week. Thanks for identifying the issue! Julian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
