topic title: fopen: Permission denied In antiX base i686 (Solved)
Posts: 299
Cuttlefish
Joined: 18 Dec 2008
#1
Well I checked the forum and Google and the only solution that I came across that I can understand is to reinstall...I'd like to avoid that.

Here is what I got when I installed gdebi:

After this operation, 15.6 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
Get:1
========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/"
linktext was:"http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/"
====================================
squeeze/main gdebi-core all 0.6.4 [69.9 kB]
Get:2
========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/"
linktext was:"http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/"
====================================
squeeze/main python-vte i386 1:0.24.3-1 [381 kB]
Get:3
========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/"
linktext was:"http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/"
====================================
squeeze/main gnome-icon-theme all 2.30.3-1 [8,800 kB]
Get:4
========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/"
linktext was:"http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/"
====================================
squeeze/main gdebi all 0.6.4 [36.3 kB]
Fetched 9,287 kB in 1min 55s (80.5 kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package gdebi-core.
(Reading database ... 46530 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking gdebi-core (from .../gdebi-core_0.6.4_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package python-vte.
Unpacking python-vte (from .../python-vte_1%3a0.24.3-1_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package gnome-icon-theme.
Unpacking gnome-icon-theme (from .../gnome-icon-theme_2.30.3-1_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package gdebi.
Unpacking gdebi (from .../archives/gdebi_0.6.4_all.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
fopen: Permission denied
Processing triggers for shared-mime-info ...
Setting up gdebi-core (0.6.4) ...
Setting up python-vte (1:0.24.3-1) ...
Setting up gnome-icon-theme (2.30.3-1) ...
update-alternatives: using /usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/places/debian-swirl.svg to provide /usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/places/start-here.svg (start-here.svg) in auto mode.
Processing triggers for python-central ...
Setting up gdebi (0.6.4) ...
Processing triggers for python-support ...
Processing triggers for python-central ...

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Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libparted1.8-12 gs-common libgirepository1.0-0 libmpfr1ldbl libdb4.5
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
  gdebi-core gnome-icon-theme python-vte
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  gdebi gdebi-core gnome-icon-theme python-vte
0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 9,287 kB of archives.
After this operation, 15.6 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
Get:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/main gdebi-core all 0.6.4 [69.9 kB]
Get:2 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/main python-vte i386 1:0.24.3-1 [381 kB]
Get:3 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/main gnome-icon-theme all 2.30.3-1 [8,800 kB]
Get:4 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/main gdebi all 0.6.4 [36.3 kB]  
Fetched 9,287 kB in 1min 55s (80.5 kB/s)                                       
Selecting previously deselected package gdebi-core.
(Reading database ... 46530 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking gdebi-core (from .../gdebi-core_0.6.4_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package python-vte.
Unpacking python-vte (from .../python-vte_1%3a0.24.3-1_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package gnome-icon-theme.
Unpacking gnome-icon-theme (from .../gnome-icon-theme_2.30.3-1_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package gdebi.
Unpacking gdebi (from .../archives/gdebi_0.6.4_all.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
fopen: Permission denied
Processing triggers for shared-mime-info ...
Setting up gdebi-core (0.6.4) ...
Setting up python-vte (1:0.24.3-1) ...
Setting up gnome-icon-theme (2.30.3-1) ...
update-alternatives: using /usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/places/debian-swirl.svg to provide /usr/share/icons/gnome/scalable/places/start-here.svg (start-here.svg) in auto mode.
Processing triggers for python-central ...
Setting up gdebi (0.6.4) ...
Processing triggers for python-support ...
Processing triggers for python-central ...
Thanks,
Dave
Last edited by Cuttlefish on 16 Nov 2010, 23:50, edited 1 time in total.
Posts: 516
oldhoghead
Site Admin
Joined: 01 Oct 2007
#2
check the ownership of man

in /var/cache/man,

also

cat /etc/group

and paste results

cheers,
ohh
Posts: 299
Cuttlefish
Joined: 18 Dec 2008
#3
ohh,
I'm not exactly sure what I should be posting from man. Is it something that is in a particular file?


Not sure if this is right. I'm not sure where cat / is but here is etc/group.

root:x:0:
daemon:x:1:
bin:x:2:
sys:x:3:
adm:x:4:
tty:x:5:
disk:x:6:
lp:x:7:Cuttlefish,cupsys
mail:x:8:
news:x:9:
uucp:x:10:Cuttlefish
man:x:12:
proxy:x:13:
kmem:x:15:
dialout:x:20:Cuttlefish,cupsys
fax:x:21:
voice:x:22:Cuttlefish
cdrom:x:24:Cuttlefish
floppy:x:25:Cuttlefish

Thanks,
Dave
Posts: 516
oldhoghead
Site Admin
Joined: 01 Oct 2007
#4
ok, that looks ok,

cd to /var/cache/man

do an

ls -l
and post results

cheers,
ohh
Posts: 299
Cuttlefish
Joined: 18 Dec 2008
#5
ohh,

total 20
drwxr-xr-x 2 Cuttlefish users 4096 Jan 17 2010 Desktop
drwxr-xr-x 2 Cuttlefish users 4096 Apr 12 2010 Documents
drwxr-xr-x 2 Cuttlefish users 4096 Nov 15 20:24 Downloads
drwxr-xr-x 2 Cuttlefish users 4096 Mar 20 2009 mcthemes
drwxr-xr-x 2 Cuttlefish users 4096 Nov 14 19:15 Wallpaper
Posts: 516
oldhoghead
Site Admin
Joined: 01 Oct 2007
#6
Hmm,

You're positive this was the output of the

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cd /var/cache/man
 /var/cache/man$  ls -l
directory?

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total 20
drwxr-xr-x 2 Cuttlefish users 4096 Jan 17 2010 Desktop
drwxr-xr-x 2 Cuttlefish users 4096 Apr 12 2010 Documents
drwxr-xr-x 2 Cuttlefish users 4096 Nov 15 20:24 Downloads
drwxr-xr-x 2 Cuttlefish users 4096 Mar 20 2009 mcthemes
drwxr-xr-x 2 Cuttlefish users 4096 Nov 14 19:15 Wallpaper
Mine looks like this:

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drwxr-sr-x 2 man root   4096 Feb 21  2007 cat1
drwxr-sr-x 2 man root   4096 Feb 21  2007 cat2
drwxr-sr-x 2 man root   4096 Feb 21  2007 cat3
drwxr-sr-x 2 man root   4096 Feb 21  2007 cat4
drwxr-sr-x 2 man root   4096 Feb 21  2007 cat5
drwxr-sr-x 2 man root   4096 Feb 21  2007 cat6
drwxr-sr-x 2 man root   4096 Feb 21  2007 cat7
drwxr-sr-x 2 man root   4096 Feb 21  2007 cat8
drwxr-sr-x 2 man root   4096 Feb 21  2007 cat9
drwxr-sr-x 2 man root   4096 Nov 13 16:13 cs
drwxr-sr-x 2 man root   4096 Nov 13 16:13 de
drwxr-sr-x 2 man root   4096 Mar  6  2009 en
drwxr-sr-x 2 man root   4096 Nov 13 16:13 es
drwxr-sr-x 2 man root   4096 Nov 13 16:13 fi
drwxr-sr-x 2 man root   4096 Nov 13 16:13 fr
drwxr-sr-x 2 man root   4096 Sep  5 22:05 fr.ISO8859-1
drwxr-sr-x 2 man root   4096 Sep  5 22:05 fr.UTF-8
drwxr-sr-x 3 man root   4096 Nov 13 16:13 fsstnd
drwxr-sr-x 2 man root   4096 Mar 23  2010 gl
drwxr-sr-x 2 man root   4096 Nov 13 16:13 hu
drwxr-sr-x 2 man root   4096 Nov 13 16:13 id
-rw-r--r-- 1 man root 622692 Nov 13 16:13 index.db
drwxr-sr-x 2 man root   4096 Nov 13 16:13 it
drwxr-sr-x 2 man root   4096 Sep  5 22:05 it.ISO8859-1
drwxr-sr-x 2 man root   4096 Sep  5 22:05 it.UTF-8
drwxr-sr-x 2 man root   4096 Nov 13 16:13 ja
drwxr-sr-x 2 man root   4096 Nov 13 16:13 ko
drwxr-sr-x 2 man root   4096 Feb 21  2007 local
drwxr-sr-x 3 man root   4096 Sep  5 22:05 nl
drwxr-sr-x 3 man root   4096 Nov 13 16:13 oldlocal
drwxr-sr-x 2 man root   4096 Feb 21  2007 opt
drwxr-sr-x 2 man root   4096 Nov 13 16:13 pl
drwxr-sr-x 2 man root   4096 Sep  5 22:05 pl.ISO8859-2
drwxr-sr-x 2 man root   4096 Sep  5 22:05 pl.UTF-8
drwxr-sr-x 2 man root   4096 Nov 13 16:13 pt
drwxr-sr-x 2 man root   4096 Nov 13 16:13 pt_BR
drwxr-sr-x 2 man root   4096 Nov 13 16:13 ru
drwxr-sr-x 2 man root   4096 Jul 17  2009 sk
drwxr-sr-x 2 man root   4096 Nov 13 16:13 sr
drwxr-sr-x 2 man root   4096 Nov 13 16:13 sv
drwxr-sr-x 2 man root   4096 Nov 13 16:13 tr
drwxr-sr-x 2 man root   4096 Sep  5 22:05 vi
drwxr-sr-x 2 man root   4096 Feb 21  2007 X11R6
drwxr-sr-x 2 man root   4096 Mar  6  2009 zh
drwxr-sr-x 2 man root   4096 Nov 13 16:13 zh_CN
drwxr-sr-x 2 man root   4096 Nov 13 16:13 zh_TW
bobbylee@antiX1:/var/cache/man$
cheers,
ohh
Posts: 299
Cuttlefish
Joined: 18 Dec 2008
#7
Sorry ohh... my mistake. Not familiar enough with the terminal commands.

How's this?

drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 21 2007 cat1
drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 21 2007 cat2
drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 21 2007 cat3
drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 21 2007 cat4
drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 21 2007 cat5
drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 21 2007 cat6
drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 21 2007 cat7
drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 21 2007 cat8
drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 21 2007 cat9
drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 16 2010 cs
drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 16 2010 de
drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 16 2010 es
drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 16 2010 fi
drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 16 2010 fr
drwxr-sr-x 4 root root 4096 Jan 16 2010 fr.ISO8859-1
drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 16 2010 fr.UTF-8
drwxr-sr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 16 2010 fsstnd
drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 15 2009 gl
drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 16 2010 hu
drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 16 2010 id
-rw-r--r-- 1 man root 566595 Jan 16 2010 index.db
drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 16 2010 it
drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 16 2010 ja
drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 16 2010 ko
drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 21 2007 local
drwxr-sr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 3 2009 nl
drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 21 2007 oldlocal
drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 21 2007 opt
drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 16 2010 pl
drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 16 2010 pt
drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 16 2010 pt_BR
drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 16 2010 ru
drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 8 2008 sk
drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 16 2010 sr
drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 16 2010 sv
drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 16 2010 tr
drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 16 2010 vi
drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 21 2007 X11R6
drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 16 2010 zh_CN
drwxr-sr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 16 2010 zh_TW


Dave
anticapitalista
Posts 5,955
Site Admin
Joined: 11 Sep 2007
#8
In a root terminal

# chown -R man:root /var/cache/man
Posts: 299
Cuttlefish
Joined: 18 Dec 2008
#9
Thanks anti! I will apt-get install something and see if I get"fopen: Permission denied" again.

Thank you too ohh. I appreciate your time.
Posts: 299
Cuttlefish
Joined: 18 Dec 2008
#10
Yep, added gxine for kicks. fopen has not returned. I see that gxine has been recently updated in the repo and it works for me now.

Thanks once again.
Dave
Posts: 180
TLeeNorris
Joined: 04 Dec 2007
#11
Yea, I saw that a lot while I was re-installing antiX & upgrading to KDE. What does that mean?