On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 02:47:44PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > > Tom, look a little farther up in the output for an error that indicates > > that an > > Thanks for the idea. I found this a little farther up: > > Fri Jul 25 14:19:13 PDT 2008 > cd . && /bin/bash /home/xubuntu/src/XASTIR/xastir/missing --run autoheader > autom4te: cannot open autom4te.cache/requests: Permission denied > autoheader: '/usr/bin/autom4te' failed with exit status: 1 > make: *** [config.h.in] Error 1 > > > I investigated and found a bunch of files in the source directory > owned by root. Whoever configured this virtual machine must have been > a little sudo-happy ;-). I chowned everything back to xubuntu:xubuntu > and the update/install went fine.
Yes, that is exactly what happened. I believe that the initial build was done with "sudo make install" instead of "make && sudo make install", creating the whole build directory as owned by root. There were a number of other issues with the Hardy VM, and I planned to replace it with a fixed one but never had the time. I am unlikely to have the time any time soon, either. If Lee puts a new one together we can perhaps get it uploaded to replace the one that's there now. If I ever get around to creating a new one, I'll also do it with "pyNeighborhood" pre-installed, since vmware-tools doesn't implement drag-and-drop file transfers between windows host and Xubuntu guest as it does for other linux distros. But again, I haven't had time to do that and was thankful when Lee did the Hardy VM in the first place. I don't even remember what all the little issues were, I'll have to dig through the list archives to find them. As I recall, there is also an issue with Berkeley DB --- the headers and libraries are mismatched, meaning that map caching doesn't work. To fix it, you would have to remove the libdb4.4-dev that is installed, and instead install libdb4.x-dev where "x" matches the highest number of an installed "libdb4.x" package installed. -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 AHTB#1 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM "Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they're yours." -- R. Bach _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir