"Permission denied" on bootup

cdlyon · 05-09-2005, 08:47 PM

I just installed Mandriva LE and the installation seemed to go OK as it finished normally. However, upon bootup, it will give the following message:

"/etc/init.d/functions: line 77 /bin/gettext: Permission Denied"

This is after 10 or 15 seconds of booting up, not immediately.

Following that message are a dozen or so in sequence essentially the same - Permission Denied referring to subsequent script lines.

And then it just hangs.

I'm using GRUB.

Any thoughts? Thanks

jschiwal · 05-09-2005, 10:11 PM

"/etc/init.d/functions: line 77 /bin/gettext: Permission Denied"

On line 77 of the /etc/init.d/functions script, the gettext command is used.
It would help to examine the relevent lines of the script to find out what the arguments are.
You could print out lines 70-80 of the script like this:
cat -n /etc/init.d/functions | sed -n '70,80p'

The cat -n part adds line numbers before each line. Then see if the gettext command or one of the arguments is inaccessible.

cdlyon · 05-14-2005, 08:57 AM

This is the several lines that include line 77:

if [ -n "GP_LANG" ]; then
local TEXT='LC_ALL = $GP_LANG LANGUAGE=$GP_LANGUAGE gettext -e --domain=$TEXTDOMAIN -- "$1"'
else
local TEXT='gettext -e --domain=$TEXTDOMAIN -- "$1"'

I do not know programming so I can't what it is about this that causes the "Permission Denied" error