[arch-general] [core/filesystem 2010.10-1 -> 2010.12-1] breaks makepkg and firefox

[Martín Cigorraga]

2010/12/18 Dave Reisner <d at falconindy.com>

> On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 05:14:45PM -0300, Martín Cigorraga wrote:
> > Dear devs, guys:
> >
> > I've been struggling for the past three days trying to find what was
> > breaking
> > makepkg [0] script and preventing Firefox to launch. Thanks I do weekly
> > backups of my system I found after trial & error -updating one package at
> a
> > time- the responsable is the core/filesystem package.
> > Is anyone else suffering this? I already tried to look for info in
> > www.archlinux.org/packages but it's not listed there.
> > Should I open a new ticket at the bugtracker?
> >
> > Thanks for any advice.
> >
> >
> > 0. Here are some logs:
> > makepkg output after installing new filesystem 2010.12-1:
> > http://aur.pastebin.com/VzRUu6yN
> > /etc/makepkg.conf (untouched): http://aur.pastebin.com/RnqjbYaX
> > last pacman's log with filesystem 2010.12-1 package installed:
> > http://aur.pastebin.com/rZtXgifP
>
> Looks to me like the errors are related to yaourt. makepkg doesn't built
> in /tmp unless you explicitly tell it to.
>
> Make sure /tmp is set with permission 1777
>
> d
>


Thanks for your quick answer.

@cantabile, @Dave
Since I didn't upgraded core/filesystem package I have no issues with
makepkg and FF.

In fact I already installed Dropbox by downloading the PKGBUILD
and the rest of the files and running makepkg as usual and even up-
dated aur/calibre-bzr and bleachbit-svn with yaourt without problems.

The problem here is the core/filesystem package that somehow mess
my system rendering FF and makepkg unusable - either way makepkg is
invoked, via CLI or thru a pacman wrapper like yaourt).

Regarding the 'missing' package I was talking about core/filesystem.
When I said I didn't find the package in www.archlinux.org/packages
I was talking about core/filesystem which I tried to find with the
x86_64 filter - my bad, I apologize for that.
The package of course is located here:
http://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/any/filesystem/

My desire when mailing to the list was to know if anyone else were expe-
rimenting the same issue as I.
Just a crazy though: can this be a permissions issue?

What have me so lost is why I'm experimenting this because so far I never
had any problems in so much time updating the whole system everyday
or at least every other day. As a plus, despite a bunch of AUR packages
(yes, I know what that implies but I check everyone of them carefully
before install'em) I try to keep my system as much as standard and vanilla
as possible since I use my Arch for everyday job so please discard thinking
of any obscure changes I could have done.

Thanks again for your time =)