cannot set profile

kindofblue · November 5, 2018

I just reinstalled Fundoo on two of my PCs, one being an old MacBook. The MacBook installation worked great, but I hit a problem on the other PC, an AMD 64 based system. I cannot set my profile with epro. Here's what I get:

Quote

epro flavor desktop

=== Enabled Profiles: ===

        arch: x86-64bit
       build: current
     subarch: amd64-k10
      flavor: desktop
     mix-ins: (not set)

>>> Set flavor to desktop.
Updating profiles at /etc/portage/make.profile/parent...
ERROR: You do not have permission to update profiles. Any changes could not be saved.

Would someone have a suggestion? Thanks in advance.

palica · November 11, 2018

all the setup commands are run as root. there is no "own profile" there is only "system profile". changing profile requires being root or using sudo.

lazlo.vii · November 5, 2018

I have to ask, are you running the command as root or at least using sudo as a non-root user? If not you can't change files in /etc

kindofblue · November 6, 2018

23 hours ago, lazlo.vii said:

I have to ask, are you running the command as root or at least using sudo as a non-root user? If not you can't change files in /etc

I don't think I have to be root or use sudo. I didn't have to one my other PC (the MacBook).

Thanks anyway for your reply.

palica · November 6, 2018

then you have to adjust permissions on /etc/portage/make.profile/parent

kindofblue · November 7, 2018

9 hours ago, palica said:

then you have to adjust permissions on /etc/portage/make.profile/parent

But the permissions on the system where command

epro flavor desktop

works are exactly the same as the other system where it doesn't work:

denis@euclide(opengl)$ ls -l /etc/portage/make.profile/parent 
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1411 Nov  4 06:56 /etc/portage/make.profile/parent

denis@maxwell(~)$ ls -ld /etc/portage/make.profile/parent
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1365 Nov  4 07:42 /etc/portage/make.profile/parent

euclide is the PC where the command works, maxwell the one where it doesn't. Besides, I remember installing Funtoo a year ago or so and epro was also working with my own account.

Thanks for the reply.

palica · November 7, 2018

paste

"groups denis" from both pc

kindofblue · November 9, 2018

On 11/7/2018 at 12:25 PM, palica said:

paste

"groups denis" from both pc

They're exactly the same:

denis@euclide(~)$ groups denis                                                                  
wheel audio cdrom video users denis

denis@maxwell(~)$ groups denis                                                                                                                          
wheel audio cdrom video users denis

palica · November 9, 2018

paste /etc/sudoers from both

kindofblue · November 10, 2018

1 hour ago, palica said:

paste /etc/sudoers from both

Thanks a lot for your help. Again, they're exactly the same

denis@euclide(~)$ sudo cat /etc/sudoers
## sudoers file.
##
## This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root.
## Failure to use 'visudo' may result in syntax or file permission errors
## that prevent sudo from running.
##
## See the sudoers man page for the details on how to write a sudoers file.
##

##
## Host alias specification
##
## Groups of machines. These may include host names (optionally with wildcards),
## IP addresses, network numbers or netgroups.
# Host_Alias	WEBSERVERS = www1, www2, www3

##
## User alias specification
##
## Groups of users.  These may consist of user names, uids, Unix groups,
## or netgroups.
# User_Alias	ADMINS = millert, dowdy, mikef

##
## Cmnd alias specification
##
## Groups of commands.  Often used to group related commands together.
# Cmnd_Alias	PROCESSES = /usr/bin/nice, /bin/kill, /usr/bin/renice, \
# 			    /usr/bin/pkill, /usr/bin/top
# Cmnd_Alias	REBOOT = /sbin/halt, /sbin/reboot, /sbin/poweroff

##
## Defaults specification
##
## You may wish to keep some of the following environment variables
## when running commands via sudo.
##
## Locale settings
# Defaults env_keep += "LANG LANGUAGE LINGUAS LC_* _XKB_CHARSET"
##
## Run X applications through sudo; HOME is used to find the
## .Xauthority file.  Note that other programs use HOME to find   
## configuration files and this may lead to privilege escalation!
# Defaults env_keep += "HOME"
##
## X11 resource path settings
# Defaults env_keep += "XAPPLRESDIR XFILESEARCHPATH XUSERFILESEARCHPATH"
##
## Desktop path settings
# Defaults env_keep += "QTDIR KDEDIR"
##
## Allow sudo-run commands to inherit the callers' ConsoleKit session
# Defaults env_keep += "XDG_SESSION_COOKIE"
##
## Uncomment to enable special input methods.  Care should be taken as
## this may allow users to subvert the command being run via sudo.
# Defaults env_keep += "XMODIFIERS GTK_IM_MODULE QT_IM_MODULE QT_IM_SWITCHER"
##
## Uncomment to use a hard-coded PATH instead of the user's to find commands
# Defaults secure_path="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin"
##
## Uncomment to send mail if the user does not enter the correct password.
# Defaults mail_badpass
##
## Uncomment to enable logging of a command's output, except for
## sudoreplay and reboot.  Use sudoreplay to play back logged sessions.
# Defaults log_output
# Defaults!/usr/bin/sudoreplay !log_output
# Defaults!/usr/local/bin/sudoreplay !log_output
# Defaults!REBOOT !log_output

##
## Runas alias specification
##

##
## User privilege specification
##
root ALL=(ALL) ALL

## Uncomment to allow members of group wheel to execute any command
# %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL

## Same thing without a password
%wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

## Uncomment to allow members of group sudo to execute any command
# %sudo	ALL=(ALL) ALL

## Uncomment to allow any user to run sudo if they know the password
## of the user they are running the command as (root by default).
# Defaults targetpw  # Ask for the password of the target user
# ALL ALL=(ALL) ALL  # WARNING: only use this together with 'Defaults targetpw'

## Read drop-in files from /etc/sudoers.d
## (the '#' here does not indicate a comment)
#includedir /etc/sudoers.d
denis@euclide(~)$

denis@maxwell(~)$ sudo cat /etc/sudoers
## sudoers file.
##
## This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root.
## Failure to use 'visudo' may result in syntax or file permission errors
## that prevent sudo from running.
##
## See the sudoers man page for the details on how to write a sudoers file.
##

##
## Host alias specification
##
## Groups of machines. These may include host names (optionally with wildcards),
## IP addresses, network numbers or netgroups.
# Host_Alias	WEBSERVERS = www1, www2, www3

##
## User alias specification
##
## Groups of users.  These may consist of user names, uids, Unix groups,
## or netgroups.
# User_Alias	ADMINS = millert, dowdy, mikef

##
## Cmnd alias specification
##
## Groups of commands.  Often used to group related commands together.
# Cmnd_Alias	PROCESSES = /usr/bin/nice, /bin/kill, /usr/bin/renice, \
# 			    /usr/bin/pkill, /usr/bin/top
# Cmnd_Alias	REBOOT = /sbin/halt, /sbin/reboot, /sbin/poweroff

##
## Defaults specification
##
## You may wish to keep some of the following environment variables
## when running commands via sudo.
##
## Locale settings
# Defaults env_keep += "LANG LANGUAGE LINGUAS LC_* _XKB_CHARSET"
##
## Run X applications through sudo; HOME is used to find the
## .Xauthority file.  Note that other programs use HOME to find   
## configuration files and this may lead to privilege escalation!
# Defaults env_keep += "HOME"
##
## X11 resource path settings
# Defaults env_keep += "XAPPLRESDIR XFILESEARCHPATH XUSERFILESEARCHPATH"
##
## Desktop path settings
# Defaults env_keep += "QTDIR KDEDIR"
##
## Allow sudo-run commands to inherit the callers' ConsoleKit session
# Defaults env_keep += "XDG_SESSION_COOKIE"
##
## Uncomment to enable special input methods.  Care should be taken as
## this may allow users to subvert the command being run via sudo.
# Defaults env_keep += "XMODIFIERS GTK_IM_MODULE QT_IM_MODULE QT_IM_SWITCHER"
##
## Uncomment to use a hard-coded PATH instead of the user's to find commands
# Defaults secure_path="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin"
##
## Uncomment to send mail if the user does not enter the correct password.
# Defaults mail_badpass
##
## Uncomment to enable logging of a command's output, except for
## sudoreplay and reboot.  Use sudoreplay to play back logged sessions.
# Defaults log_output
# Defaults!/usr/bin/sudoreplay !log_output
# Defaults!/usr/local/bin/sudoreplay !log_output
# Defaults!REBOOT !log_output

##
## Runas alias specification
##

##
## User privilege specification
##
root ALL=(ALL) ALL

## Uncomment to allow members of group wheel to execute any command
# %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL

## Same thing without a password
%wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

## Uncomment to allow members of group sudo to execute any command
# %sudo	ALL=(ALL) ALL

## Uncomment to allow any user to run sudo if they know the password
## of the user they are running the command as (root by default).
# Defaults targetpw  # Ask for the password of the target user
# ALL ALL=(ALL) ALL  # WARNING: only use this together with 'Defaults targetpw'

## Read drop-in files from /etc/sudoers.d
## (the '#' here does not indicate a comment)
#includedir /etc/sudoers.d
denis@maxwell(~)$

palica · November 10, 2018

so I don't know why you can update on one as normal user - but that should not be the normal behaviour. I think that setting profile is a admin's (root) job and should be limited to root or sudoers. there has to be a difference other then one being mac and the other amd, what stage did you use for both of them, how did you extract them. I am just guessing here as I don't know what could cause this behaviour, but what I am trying to say, try to go back in your setup procedure and give any differences between the two machines. Also I don't think that you should be allowed to change system's profile as a normal user. So actually I find the mac performance strange.

I have never encountered this as I always setup the core OS as root. How did you emerge packages, also as denis user?

kindofblue · November 11, 2018

If you read the documentation on profiles, for example here, it doesn't say root privilege is required. I'm only trying to change my own profile, not system wide. I use sudo to emerge. For the rest I set up the two PCs exactly the same way, except for the stage download.

Thanks again.

kindofblue · November 13, 2018

I am really sorry, I wasted your time all along. I sudoed to root on the MacBook and looked at the command history. I was root when I changed the profile. I wonder how I can work in that business and be sometimes so confused.

palica · November 13, 2018

no problem, glad we sorted it out.

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