Opened 13 years ago

Closed 13 years ago

#29976 closed defect (duplicate)

dbus port requires root

Reported by: nefar@… Owned by: MarcusCalhoun-Lopez (Marcus Calhoun-Lopez)
Priority: Normal Milestone:
Component: ports Version: 1.9.2
Keywords: Cc:
Port: dbus

Description

I installed macports using: 

./configure --with-no-root-privileges --prefix=$HOME/local/macports

when compiling dbus: 

Warning: addgroup only works when running as root.
Warning: The requested group 'messagebus' was not created.
Warning: adduser only works when running as root.
Warning: The requested user 'messagebus' was not created.
--->  Activating dbus @1.4.10_1
Error: Target org.macports.activate returned: error copying "/Users/daniel/local/macports/var/macports/software/dbus/1.4.10_1/Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist" to "/Library/LaunchAgents/org.freedesktop.dbus-session.plist": permission denied
Error: Failed to install dbus

Change History (3)

comment:1 Changed 13 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)

Owner: changed from macports-tickets@… to mcalhoun@…

comment:2 Changed 13 years ago by jmroot (Joshua Root)

Please remember to cc the maintainer.

Presumably this is what the no_root variant is for.

comment:3 Changed 13 years ago by jmroot (Joshua Root)

Resolution: → duplicate
Status: new → closed

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