Opened 11 years ago

Closed 10 years ago

#1690 closed defect (invalid)

error root required when logged in as root

Reported by: krichter Owned by: alfs-log@…
Priority: normal Milestone:
Component: jhalfs Version: SVN
Severity: normal Keywords: root
Cc:

Description

when running make as user root I'm getting error "You must not be logged in as root to build the system." Makefile is attached. I'm using svn commit 70ba04125dca04d6c5de5cd330183fbef5fab30e.

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Makefile​ (825 bytes ) - added by krichter 11 years ago.
Makefile generated with make command

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Change History (4)

by krichter, 11 years ago

Attachment: Makefile​ added

Makefile generated with make command

comment:1 by krichter, 11 years ago

Seems to occur if BUILD_DIR's parent directory is not owned by root. The error message could be better :)

comment:2 by krichter, 11 years ago

can't change type from defect to enhancement request...

comment:3 by Pierre Labastie, 10 years ago

Resolution: → invalid
Status: new → closed

Sorry for the late reply. This error is raised if the user ID is 0. It has nothing to do with directory ownership. Closing as invalid.

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