From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 19 06:31:33 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B625016A4B3 for ; Fri, 19 Sep 2003 06:31:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rwcrmhc11.comcast.net (rwcrmhc11.comcast.net [204.127.198.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA55543F3F for ; Fri, 19 Sep 2003 06:31:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (be-well.no-ip.com[66.30.200.37]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc11) with ESMTP id <2003091913313201300f8g2me>; Fri, 19 Sep 2003 13:31:32 +0000 Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [66.30.200.37] (may be forged)) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h8JDVVhW003125; Fri, 19 Sep 2003 09:31:31 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.9/8.12.6/Submit) id h8JDVNDw003122; Fri, 19 Sep 2003 09:31:23 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org using -f Sender: lowell@be-well.no-ip.com To: Mike Tibor References: <20030917134630.G88077-100000@xena.mikey.net> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 19 Sep 2003 09:31:23 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20030917134630.G88077-100000@xena.mikey.net> Message-ID: <4465jo3nx0.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 33 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "make: permission denied" error when doing "make installworld" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 13:31:33 -0000 Mike Tibor 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.