[Tfug] Bizarre permissions situation...

[Matthew Patenaude]

Ahhh! I see. So the Rockbox utility doesn't work in 64 bit? I use it
regularly (well, every time there is an update for Rockbox, that is) in 32
bit Ubuntu. Works nice, just have it sitting in a folder, not permanently
installed.

Glad you got it to work, anyway.

Matthew

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Jim March <1.jim.march at gmail.com> wrote:

> Since I'm running 64bit Ubuntu, the only way I could get the "easy
> installer" for the latest stable Rockbox was to connect the Sansa to
> my XP Virtual Machine and use the MS-Windows installer talking
> straight to the Sansa, bypassing Linux completely.  Sucked, but what
> can ya do?
>
> It worked.
>
> Jim
>
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 9:23 PM, Matthew Patenaude <mnglfiddle at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 5:33 AM, Jim March <1.jim.march at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 1:50 PM, John Gruenenfelder
> >> <johng at as.arizona.edu> wrote:
> >> > On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 09:06:38PM -0700, Jim March wrote:
> >> >>I intend to run Rockbox on it, but only once I have the permissions
> >> >>issues sorted out.
> >> >>
> >> >>Which still ain't working despite:
> >> >>
> >> >>/dev/sdb1       /media/disk auto user,noauto,uid=1000   0  0
> >> >>
> >> >>...in fstab.
> >> >>
> >> >>I just used gparted to confirm it's /dev/sdb1 and I triple-checked my
> >> >> uid.
> >> >>
> >> >>If anybody can help...I'd really appreciate it.  This blows.
> >> >
> >> > You can't change the permissions/ownership for any of those files (via
> >> > chmod/chown, anyway) on the device because FAT32 does not support
> >> > permissions
> >> > of any kind.
> >> >
> >> > Now, without the uid= option, the ownership should be set to whomever
> >> > mounts
> >> > it.  If root mounts it, then root owns all of the files, and if your
> >> > user
> >> > mounts it, then he will own all of the files.  The uid= option
> *should*
> >> > fix
> >> > all of that, however...  You could try adding gid=1000 as well.
> >> >
> >> > So, what happens when you mount the device, not as root but as your
> >> > user, with
> >> > or without the uid= option?  Who owns the files according to ls -l?
> >> >  What
> >> > permissions do they have?
> >>
> >> Welll...the truly weird thing now is that if I plug it in and mount it
> >> at the command line via sudo, it works "for root only".  If I then
> >> pull it and re-mount it, it works in the normal, friendly, auto-detect
> >> fashion fully read-write for my regular username.
> >>
> >> Grrr.
> >>
> >> I'm going to be reformatting anyways to 32bit instead of 64, too many
> >> odd glitches right now.  So it'll probably be OK after that.
> >>
> >
> >
> > I think the Rockbox install utility app will install Rockbox without the
> > hassle of the other things you're trying to do. You might actually have
> an
> > easier time of it after you install Rockbox, than trying to install it
> > after you get the permissions figured out... or am I missing something
> here?
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