Dear Marc and Peter, Thank you so much. In fact disabling the SElinux solved the problem.
Bala On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Marc Schwartz <marc_schwa...@me.com> wrote: > > On Apr 21, 2009, at 9:28 AM, Peter Dalgaard wrote: > > Bala subramanian wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> I tried to install from four different mirrors. The result is the same. I >>> dnt understand what the following error means. >>> /usr/lib/R/library/ncdf/libs/ncdf.so: cannot restore segment prot after >>> reloc: Permission denied >>> Error in library(ncdf) : .First.lib failed for 'ncdf' >>> >>> I even tried to change the permission of ncdf.so but still i am not able >>> to >>> load the library. >>> >> >> >> Nothing to do with the download. I think SElinux is getting in your way >> (so your unstated system could be RedHat Enterprise Linux?). >> >> Contact your sysadm or google for the error message. >> >> (One of the hits suggests that you might need to run >> >> chcon -t texrel_shlib_t ncdf.so >> >> but, well, no warranties...) >> > > The OP did indicate that F10 was the platform: > > > https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/attachments/20090421/65ee5d6e/attachment.pl > > so I would agree here that SELinux is almost certainly the culprit as it > does control relocation. > > If you have the SE Troubleshoot daemon running, you should get a yellow > star/badge symbol on one of your desktop dock panels. Typically, if you > click on this, it will bring up a dialog window that will have some specific > suggestions for resolving the problem. You can see some visual examples > here: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Design/SETroubleshootUsabilityImprovements > > More info on SETroubleshoot here: > > https://fedorahosted.org/setroubleshoot/ > > HTH, > > Marc Schwartz > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
