Re: cannot acces parent Dir?

Nomad the Wanderer (nomad@orci.com)
Sun, 23 Aug 1998 08:42:28 -0600

I thought of these, but the dir is /usr/src/linux, which is a link
to /usr/src/linux-2.1.117, and the user is root. I did get annoyed
and try to recompile the kernel as a non-root user, and it didn't get
this error. The shell used is the public domain ksh. I'll try
bash if anyone can actually say this might be it.

Thus spake Division by Zero (paradox@maine.rr.com):

> hmm odd. Usually one gets that if the directory they are in is removed from another VC.
> Or, if yer not root, maybe you don't have permissions to that directory (or one of its
> parentdirs).
> Or maybe your pathname could be too long?
>
>
> Nomad the Wanderer wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to compile 117 and I keep getting this:
> >
> > shell-init: could not get current directory: getwd: cannot access parent directories
> >
> > As a result, I can't even do a "makde menuconfig". I've tried this on
> > 2.1.116 and a 2.1.117 that I compiled on another machine.
> >
> > Robert
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> >
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> >
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> >
> > FYI:
> > perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
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Robert L. Harris | You mean you paid
Senior System Administrator II | MONEY for
at Great West Life. \_ Service Pack '98???

http://www.orci.com/~nomad

DISCLAIMER:
These are MY OPINIONS ALONE. I speak for no-one else.

FYI:
perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'

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