[pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#483074: Bug#483074: xen.patch: Permission denied

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 11:09:11PM +0200, Cyril Jaquier wrote:
> Package: nvidia-kernel-source
> Version: 169.12-2
> Severity: serious
> Justification: no longer builds from source
> 
> Hi maintainer,
> 
> nvidia-kernel-source 169.12-2 does not build and shows this error:
> 
> #patch for XEN
> patch -p3 < /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/debian/patches/xen.patch
> /bin/sh: /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/debian/patches/xen.patch:
> Permission denied
> make[2]: *** [configure-stamp] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel'
> make[1]: *** [kdist_image] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel'
> 
> The output of "ls" is quite strange:
> 
> $ ll /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/debian/patches/
> ls: cannot access
> /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/debian/patches/xen.patch: Permission
> denied
> total 0
> -????????? ? ? ? ?                ? xen.patch
> 
> I am not running any xen related software.

Probably right, but the 2.6.25 kernels in debian now have xen support
enabled (32bit x86 that is, the others do not).  As a result the nvidia
driver had to be patched to not be confused by this.

I have no idea why you are getting a permission error.

What does this show:

ls -ld /usr/src/modules/nvidia-kernel/debian/patches/

-- 
Len Sorensen