Am 11. Jul, 2001 schwäzte Faheem Mitha so: > I recently changed my user id (faheem) from 1000 to 500. I tried to run > apt-get build pgp4pine just now as root in my home directory (the first > time after changing the id, I think) and I discovered that something has > got bollixeded up. I get > > /usr/bin/dpkg-buildpackage: debian/rules: Permission denied > Build command 'cd pgp4pine-1.75-6 && dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc' failed. > E: Child process failed
You ran the build command as root? You shouldn't experience any "Permission denied" errors as root :). Unless maybe there's a file where there should be a directory. > and more strangely, a list of the relevant files gives > > drwxr-xr-x 4 1000 faheem 1024 Jul 11 19:37 pgp4pine-1.75-6 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11039 May 14 11:16 > pgp4pine_1.75-6-1.diff.gz > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 599 May 14 11:16 > pgp4pine_1.75-6-1.dsc > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 85239 May 14 11:16 > pgp4pine_1.75-6.orig.tar.gz > > Note the user 1000. Since I changed the id, there is no longer a user > 1000, so there is clearly something wrong. Apparently at least one of the > package tools thinks that my id is still 1000. I tried building (as root) > in /tmp (ie not my home directory) and it works OK. So the problem is to > do with my user status. Presumably there is a place somewhere that has me > recorded as having user id 1000, and I need to change it. Did you logout of all of your shells and log back in? Still, running as root should've caused that dir to be owned by root. "find / -user 1000" should turn up that directory. What's it look like in that dir and in the debian dir? ciao, der.hans -- # [EMAIL PROTECTED] home.pages.de/~lufthans/ www.DevelopOnline.com # "... the social skills of a cow on acid." - der.hans