Category: Technology

Fix “Permission denied @ rb_file_s_symlink” error of installing homebrew

Today I tried to install homebrew on my macOS Mojave, and came across following errors:

$ /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
......
Already up-to-date.
Error: Failed to link all completions, docs and manpages:
  Permission denied @ rb_file_s_symlink - (../../../Homebrew/completions/zsh/_brew, /usr/local/share/zsh/site-functions/_brew)
Failed during: /usr/local/bin/brew update --force

After refering stackoverflow, I fixed it through following command:

$ sudo chown -R $(whoami) $(brew --prefix)/*

Build gdb on illumos

Claim: Since illumos provides its own debugger: mdb, I don’t want to convince anybody to use gdb instead of mdb. Compile and use gdb is just my personal hobby.

I use OmniOS, and I think this material should also apply to other illumos OSs and even Solaris:

(1) Download and extract gdb source code (currently the newest versin is 8.3);
(2) Enter the gdb directory and do configuration:

# cd gdb-8.3
# mkdir build
# ../configure CC='gcc -m64'  CXX='g++ -m64'

(3) Build it:

# gmake

After compiling, testing it:

# ./gdb-8.3/build/gdb/gdb --data-directory=./gdb-8.3/build/gdb/data-directory/ -q a.out
Reading symbols from a.out...
(gdb) start
Temporary breakpoint 1 at 0x4011b6: file test.c, line 4.
Starting program: /root/a.out
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 1 (LWP 1)]
[Switching to Thread 1 (LWP 1)]

Thread 2 hit Temporary breakpoint 1, main () at test.c:4
4               printf("%d\n", sizeof(long unsigned int));
(gdb) n
8
5               return 0;
(gdb)
6       }
(gdb)

So far so good!

Build illumos source code on OmniOS

To build illumos source code on OmniOS, you need to update system and install related tools (Assume you run as root) first:

# pkg update
# pkg install pkg:/developer/illumos-tools

Then clone illumos source code and compile ():

# git clone https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate.git
# cd illumos-gate
# time ksh93 usr/src/tools/scripts/nightly /opt/onbld/env/omnios-illumos-gate

That’s it!

References:
Building illumos;
Build error of illumos-gate on OmniOS.

Install OmniOS on VirtualBox

Following document to install OmniOS is quite straightforward. I use r151030 version and pick Solaris 11 during selecting Operating Systems on VirtualBox. To use root login through SSH, I need to do following changes:

(1) Set PermitRootLogin‘s value to yes in /etc/ssh/sshd_config file;

(2) Restart SSH service:

# svcadm restart ssh

A fresh OmniOS is born:

Update:

When installing r151032, I found selecing Oracle Solaris 10 10/09 and later (64-bit) can work.

Reference:
Solaris : How to enable ssh login for root user after a fresh install.