hi,
i have a strange error with fuse 2.6.3 on my slamd64 11.0 (with 2.6.16.29 and 2.6.20.1, modprobe fuse ok)

i get the tarball, and compile it as usual:
./configure
make
make install

but when i try the examples in the example directory of the tarball i get the error of the title:

fusermount: mount failed: Operation not permitted
(as a normal user and as root)

i check on fuse.sourceforge.net with no results,
the fuse device seems ok:

ls -l /dev/fuse
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 10, 229 2007-03-07 15:32 /dev/fuse

ls -l /usr/local/bin/fusermount
-rwsr-xr-x 1 mylogin users 21992 2007-03-07 14:10 /usr/local/bin/fusermount*

and

which fusermount
/usr/local/bin/fusermount

i also try to compile with
./configure --enable-lib --enable-util --enable-example

any idea?

thanks to all

I found somewhere that fuse needs to be built with the very same compiler/version as that which was used to build the kernel. I can't remember for sure, but I think the symptom of not doing this was as you describe. I'm sorry I don't recall where I found this information, but I did find that for my combination of kernel (FC3) & fuse version (2.1), this seemed to be true.
Is your VFS mountpoint a valid directory?
--- rod.

Make sure you have the fuse module loaded. Check by doing a: "lsmod" to list your modules. If you don't have fuse in there, a "modprobe fuse" should get you going.

thanks for the answers

now i have fuse directly inside the kernel (compiled not like module <M> but like <*>) but i'm sure that i had tried also with fuse compiled as a module with the same error

theNbomr what do you mean with:
i have compiled the kernel and fuse manually with the same version of gcc & co

any other idea?

hi,

i've finally won!!!

i try to do
make install
without the DESTDIR flag (i use DESTDIR to make a tgz package with makepkg)

and everything is ok!!!

can someone tell me where i was wrong?
these are the steps i did before:

thanks!