[oe] Help?

[Henning Heinold]

On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 04:50:58PM -0500, David Thomas wrote:
> I can get bitbake to run as root but I don't let it continue as it is
> not advised.
> 
> As user I get this:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/home/dthomas/bitbake/bin/bitbake", line 234, in <module>
>     ret = main()
>   File "/home/dthomas/bitbake/bin/bitbake", line 197, in main
>     server = ProcessServer(server_channel, event_queue, configuration)
>   File "/home/dthomas/bitbake/lib/bb/server/process.py", line 78, in __init__
>     self.cooker = BBCooker(configuration, self.register_idle_function)
>   File "/home/dthomas/bitbake/lib/bb/cooker.py", line 77, in __init__
>     self.parseConfigurationFiles(self.configuration.file)
>   File "/home/dthomas/bitbake/lib/bb/cooker.py", line 529, in
> parseConfigurationFiles
>     bb.event.fire(bb.event.ConfigParsed(), self.configuration.data)
> IOError: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted
> 
> 
> I have tried everything. I am using Fedora 13 and have followed every

Why don't use some more up to date distribution?

> guide to the letter. It seems to be a permissions issue but where, I
> have almost given up trying. As always, there is no info on the this
> anywhere that is remotely useful
> 

Use "ls -la" and "find" to find out permissions and ownership. Hence you used
root user in the first place its likely there has something the wrong permisions.

If nothing helps start from the beginning, that is most of time easier and faster.

> Any help is appreciated?
Sure.

Bye Henning