Re: install/45488: install of 5.1.0_PATCH fails

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR install/45488; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: install/45488: install of 5.1.0_PATCH fails
Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2011 18:16:10 +0000

 On Sat, Nov 05, 2011 at 05:55:02PM +0000, diro%nixsyspaus.org@localhost wrote:
  >>  
  >>  My first guess (unless that '#' is lying to you) is that you have
  >>  securelevel set? I have no idea what else would cause this.
  >  
  >  % sysctl -a | grep securelevel
  >  kern.securelevel = -1
  >  security.models.bsd44.securelevel = -1
  >    
  >  >  Well, actually that's not quite true. Is /dev a mount point?
  >  
  >  It is: fdesc on /dev type fdesc (union, local)
 
 Isn't that normally mounted in /dev/fd? Anyhow, I guess that's why
 it's failing; I'm guessing fdesc doesn't allow its root dir to be
 setattr'd.
 
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 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost