Date: 19 Sep 2003 09:31:23 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com> To: Mike Tibor <tibor@tibor.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "make: permission denied" error when doing "make installworld" Message-ID: <4465jo3nx0.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20030917134630.G88077-100000@xena.mikey.net> References: <20030917134630.G88077-100000@xena.mikey.net>
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Mike Tibor <tibor@tibor.org> writes: > (if this question is more appropriate for freebsd-stable, let me know) Not really. > I'm trying update one of my servers, and can't get past a "make: > permission denied" error when doing a "make instalworld" as root in single > user mode. My sequence was this: > > cvsup > make buildworld > make buildkernel > make installkernel > shutdown now (go to single user mode) That should be "shutdown -r now". You want to reboot into the new kernel. [This explains the problem, I think, because you're probably still running at a raised security level, even though you're in single-user mode.] > make installworld > > I'm I missing something? I've run into this once before on another > server, and just did a binary upgrade to get around it. The thing is, > I've successfully upgraded along the -STABLE tree via this method > countless times. > > / is mounted rw, and /usr/bin/make is executable. I suspect the "permission denied" errors are caused by system-immutable flags, not by file permissions.
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