Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 23:33:15 +0000 From: Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca> To: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, "lausts@acm.org" <lausts@acm.org> Subject: Re: Mergemaster won't run on NFS mount Message-ID: <YTXPR0101MB2174F8AAD92D8B761AB912A5DD200@YTXPR0101MB2174.CANPRD01.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM> In-Reply-To: <bdcfc9c9-506d-2c6b-c198-1c0ae29e15a7@acm.org> References: <bdcfc9c9-506d-2c6b-c198-1c0ae29e15a7@acm.org>
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Thomas Laus wrote: >I have been updating FreeBSD for years on my fastest computer and then >NFS mounting /usr/src and /usr/obj to share with other PC's. I just >updated FreeBSD-CURRENT to 326070 and was able to install the kernel and >world. When I attempted to run mergemaster, I received the following >error message: > >*** Creating the temporary root environment in /var/tmp/temproot > *** /var/tmp/temproot ready for use > *** Creating and populating directory structure in /var/tmp/temproot > > /bin/sh: cannot create freebsd.cf: Permission denied Make sure mountd is running with the "-S" option on the nfs server. If not, any mount operation done on the NFS server will result in EACCES failures while /etc/exports is being reloaded. (If it is running with "-S" I don't know why it would fail?) rick ps: "-S" should be the default now...
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