Re: [rox-devel] gitweb problem

[Thomas L. <ta...@gm...>]

On 27 September 2010 17:59, Stephen Watson <st...@ke...> wrote:
> Stephen Watson <st...@ke...> wrote:
>
>> Thomas Leonard <ta...@gm...> wrote:
>>
>> > On 25 September 2010 10:45, Stephen Watson <st...@ke...>
>> wrote:
>> > > I don't like git, and git doesn't like me, but we're using it for
>> ROX-Filer
>> > > and ROX-Lib so I have to deal with it.  The problem is since I
> switched
>> to a
>> > > 64 bit machine gitweb has stopped working.  If you go to
>> > > http://kerofin.demon.co.uk/git/gitweb.cgi you'll find no projects
>> listed,
>> > > but I know there should be two.
>> >
>> > You could try setting the environment variable GIT_TRACE=1 (or 2).
>> > That sometimes shows what's going on. Otherwise, strace it?
>
> strace has just confused me more:
>
> access("/srv/git/rox-lib/objects", X_OK) = 0
> access("/srv/git/rox-lib/refs", X_OK)   = 0
> lstat("/srv/git/rox-lib/HEAD", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=23, ...}) = 0
> open("/srv/git/rox-lib/HEAD", O_RDONLY) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
> write(2, "fatal: Not a git repository: '/s"..., 48) = 48
> exit_group(128)                         = ?
>
> stephen@kerofin:/tmp> ls -l /srv/git/rox-lib/HEAD
> -rw-r--r-- 1 stephen users 23 2008-01-19 18:35 /srv/git/rox-lib/HEAD
>
> That's world-readable so why the EACCES?  The intervening directories are
> also world readable (otherwise how could the lstat succeed?).

That's pretty odd. Any strange SELinux / AppArmor policies in effect?


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