[meta-freescale] fatal error while init the repo on a nfs mounted drive

[Gary Thomas]

On 2013-06-07 03:25, Thanassis Silis wrote:
> i am trying to initialize a repo (for yocto development - but it seems to be using the same infrastructure as android).
> since I lack space on the OS drive, I nfs mounted another disk (filesystem is ext4 but that probably is irrelevant on the mount-client side).
> I try to initialize the repo with the command
>
> |./repo init -u https://github.com/Freescale/fsl-community-bsp-platform -b dylan
> |
>
> and get the error
>
> |fatal: unable to start /mnt/lvm/public/.repo/repo/main.py
> fatal: [Errno 13] Permission denied
> |
>
> Permissions are fine on the disk. manually I can do file operations without a problem.
> Is it impossible to have the repo on an nfs drive (even at the penalty of slower processing)?
> Thank you for your help

I just tried this and it worked fine.

When you say permissions are fine, did you check it from the
NFS client side?  The error you are getting says that they are
not.  Also, are you running selinux?  If so, make sure that's
set up properly as well.

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