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fsquillace / junest

The lightweight Arch Linux based distro that runs, without root privileges, on top of any other Linux distro.
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pacman error: you cannot perform this operation unless you are root. #125

Closed eMPee584 closed 9 years ago

eMPee584 commented 9 years ago

So, I have checked out junest from git, exported the $PATH and ran junest. The image is downloaded from dropbox and unpacked into .junest, which is now 317MiB in size. However, there's a problem:

s0893948@login1:/home/h2/s0893948> junest
proot warning: can't chdir("/home/h2/s0893948/./.") in the guest rootfs: No such file or directory
proot info: default working directory is now "/"
proot warning: can't chdir("/home/h2/s0893948/./.") in the guest rootfs: No such file or directory
proot info: default working directory is now "/"
[I have no name!@login1 /]$ pacman -Syy
error: you cannot perform this operation unless you are root.
[I have no name!@login1 /]$ su
sh: su: command not found

Note also the uncommon home path construct:

s0893948@login1:/home/h2/s0893948> ls -lahd /home/h2/s0893948 /home/s0893948
drwx------ 12 s0893948 idmuser 4.0K Nov 10 11:00 /home/h2/s0893948
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root     root      11 Nov  4 22:18 /home/s0893948 -> h2/s0893948

...what gives..?

eMPee584 commented 9 years ago

Ok RTFM fail, sorry.

As fakeroot - Allow to install/remove packages: junest -f

The warning about being unable to chdir of course goes away with a simple

ln -svi /home/s0893948 /home/h2/
fsquillace commented 9 years ago

Good to know it was a simple issue ;)

Feel free to star JuNest in github if you like it. It will help the project ;)

Regards, Filippo