module install trouble

[tswitz00]

I am trying to install Proc:aemon module, or I guess any module for that matter, and I keep getting this error

make install
mkdir /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/Proc: Read-only file system at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/ExtUtils/Install.pm line 139
make: *** [pure_site_install] Error 255

any thoughts?

 

[icrf]

You running that as root? Only root would have permission to write to /usr/lib/

- Andrew
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[tswitz00]

Yes I am logged in as root

 

[icrf]

does /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/Proc exist? if not, can you manually create it?

- Andrew
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[tswitz00]

ah yes maybe that is it. I cd to /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/ and tried to mkdir and its giving me the same mkdir: cannot create directory `Proc': Read-only file system

How do I get around that?

 

[vjcyrano]

try changing the permissions of the
directory
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1
and then try creating the Proc directory

 

[tswitz00]

What would you suggest I change it to?

 

[tswitz00]

here are the current permissions for that folder
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jul 22 2004 5.6.1

 

[tswitz00]

well I just tried changing it to 777 to catch everything and spit out:

chmod: changing permissions of `/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1': Read-only file system

didnt change the permissions.

 

[icrf]

Sounds like it's really a read-only file system, as those default permissions should let you mkdir there as root already.

I don't remember how to check for flags on a mounted volume. What's the output of "mount" from the command line? Might also want to check for any "ro" options in /etc/fstab. There's probably some more hard core linux monkeys around that can chime in.

- Andrew
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[tswitz00]

/dev/hda5 / ext3 rw 0 0
none /proc proc rw 0 0
/dev/hda1 /boot ext3 rw 0 0
/dev/hda8 /home ext3 rw,grpquota 0 0
/dev/hda6 /usr ext3 rw 0 0
/dev/hda7 /var ext3 rw,usrquota 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0


It appears that everything is set to rw?

 

[icrf]

Sorry, I think I'm at a loss. If the other folks here aren't enough smarter than us, you may want to try posting the question over in one of the linux forums here at TT.

- Andrew
Text::Highlight - A language-neutral syntax highlighting module in Perl
also on SourceForge including demo