Head-Bangingly Difficult Unreal Tournament Problem

gamera2_00 · n00b Joined: 05 Mar 2003 Posts: 47

Hello everyone,

I'm experencing an unusually complex problem with no obvious solution. I cannot install unreal-tournament. And no, it's not the STDIO problem that's seen on many bug reports, it's a tad bit more cryptic.

Wheter I use bash in sh (/bin/sh) bash, as root, or any installer, I always get the same error:

bash-2.05b# sh ./ut-install*
Verifying archive integrity...OK
Uncompressing Unreal Tournament version 428 Linux install...........................................................................
./ut-install-428.run: ./setup.sh: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied
The program returned an error code (126)

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get more information as to what's going wrong? (--verbose only ouputs what the script does, not where it fails...)

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BonezTheGoon · Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2003 11:25 pm Post subject:

I assume that you are talking about the original UT not the 2003 version. If so why not just emerge the ebuild from portage?

At any rate my suggestions would first be to try and download it again -- if you do not want to emerge the version from portage that is.

Regards,
BonezTheGoon

gamera2_00 · n00b Joined: 05 Mar 2003 Posts: 47

Uhm, I tried emerging 436, even under X, with xterm, gnome-terminal, logged in as root, a failsafe session. Same results every time. Tried a different version, tried checking the perms on sh, the perms on /mnt/cdrom and everything is okay. But, it keeps dying that way. Tried re-downloading it, three times at least. Tried installing it from different places, tried the version in /usr/portage/distfiles, the one in my home. It does not like green eggs in ham, sam I am...

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Bushmann · Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2003 2:32 pm Post subject:

did you try it with: sh ut-install-436.run?
had same problem (but with ut2) and that solved it

gamera2_00 · n00b Joined: 05 Mar 2003 Posts: 47

Yep. Tried that from Xterm, tried that from tty1, tried that with --debug, tried that with --debug --verbose, it never tells me where it fails.

With --debug --verbose, it tells me
<snip>
Uncompressing Unreal Tournament version 436 Linux installcd $tmpdir
[ "$keep" = y ] || trap 'cd /tmp; /bin/rm -rf $tmpdir; exit $res'
if ( (cd $location; tail +$skip $0; ) | gzip -cd | { tar xvf - || failed=y
; } | (while read a; do $echo -n .; done; echo; )); then
if [ x$failed = xy ]; then
echo 'File extraction failed!'; cd /tmp; /bin/rm -rf $tmpdir; eval $finish; exit 1
fi
chown -Rf `id -u`.`id -g` .
res=0; if [ x"$script" != x ]; then
if [ x"$verbose" = xy ]; then
$echo "OK to execute: $script $scriptargs $* ? [Y/n] "
read yn
[ x"$yn" = x -o x"$yn" = xy -o x"$yn" = xY ] && { $script $scriptargs $*; res=$?; }
else
$script $scriptargs $*; res=$?
fi
[ $res != 0 ] && echo "The program returned an error code ($res)"
fi
[ "$keep" = y ] || { cd /tmp; /bin/rm -rf $tmpdir; }
else
echo "Cannot decompress $0"; eval $finish; exit 1
fi
.......................................................................
id -u
id -g
ut-install-436.run: ./setup.sh: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied
The program returned an error code (126)
eval $finish; exit $res
true
</snip>

and borks.

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gamera2_00 · n00b Joined: 05 Mar 2003 Posts: 47

I played around some more, it turns out, tcsh won't execute stuff in /tmp. Despite the fact that /tmp's perm's are 777. Is there some setting in tcsh that allows this? And furthermore, the unreal-tournament build is kind of broken, as it doesn't know that the installer is failing (Not really a problem, just kind of annyoing).

Any ideas? Anyone?
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gamera2_00 · n00b Joined: 05 Mar 2003 Posts: 47

Was bug in ebuild, problem fixed, bug reported. Life is good. sorry about the semispam.

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16706

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BonezTheGoon · Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2003 10:47 pm Post subject:

Thank you for submitting a bug on the problem, and thank you even more for posting a link to the bug! Very nicely done!

Regards,
BonezTheGoon