[aur-general] Problem with makechrootpkg

[jwbirdsong]

On 05/29/2010 11:38 PM, Nathan O. wrote:
> On 05/30/2010 12:36 AM, Nathan O. wrote:
>> On 05/30/2010 12:38 AM, Allan McRae wrote:
>>> On 30/05/10 15:20, Nathan O. wrote:
>>>> I am trying to run makechrootpkg -r /aur -- -i in the dir that 
>>>> contains
>>>> the PKGBUILD
>>>>
>>>> /usr/bin/makepkg: line 461: /dev/null: Permission denied
>>>>
>>>> I redid the chroot with mkarchroot -f /aur/root base base-devel 
>>>> sudo to
>>>> see if that would help but still the same error. I tried another 
>>>> package
>>>> earlier and it gave the same error, thought maybe there was something
>>>> else wrong.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Are you running it as root?  It needs root permissions and then 
>>> makechrootpkg changes to user nobody to do the building.
>>>
>>> Allan
>>>
>>
>> Yup it is being ran as root
>>
> Hmm I restarted after some pacman upgrades and now it works. Now 
> atleast this is a solution to try if anybody else gets this error.
>
Ignore my earlier noise/babble then.  :)