WikipediaFS wfs wikifs fails to mount

[snayle]

Because "mvs - A command line Mediawiki client" is in my opinion a little too complicated way to deal with a Mediawiki, I just gave WikipediaFS a try today, wich did make a binary /usr/bin/mount.wikipediafs

The problem is that the mounting doesn't work:

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snayle@snayle ~ % sudo mount.wikipediafs ~/wfs/
python: fuse_opt.c:67: fuse_opt_insert_arg: Assertion `pos <= args->argc' failed.

The README of wikipediafs-0.2.tar.gz says that I need to install Python, Fuse and Python-Fuse (for which there isn't an ebuild too, but was - following the INSTALL-instructions - very easy to install).

The README is futher explaining:

To run mount.wikipediafs without root privileges, you have to set the right
permissions, for /usr/bin/fusermount and /dev/fuse. For example,

# adduser your_username fuse
# chmod 4750 /usr/bin/fusermount
# chgrp fuse /dev/fuse /usr/bin/fusermount

Unfortunately I don't know how to actually create that group so if anyone like to instruct me here would be nice lol

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1 snayle@snayle ~ % l /dev/fuse /usr/bin/fusermount                :(
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root  10, 229 2006-08-16 21:33 /dev/fuse
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel     19K 2006-08-03 16:36 /usr/bin/fusermount*

But its not the permissions at all... so what the hell I'm doing wrong?

[Dana Merrick]

I'm not entirely sure what the problem is. It seems like a bug is FUSE.

Try remerging fuse and fuse-python.

Does "lsmod|grep fuse" have any results? Try doing a "modprobe fuse" and trying again.

Also, there is a new version of WikipediaFS (0.3) that could potentially fix this problem.

To make a group you use

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groupadd GROUPNAME

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To add a user to a group you use

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usermod -G GROUPNAME USERNAME

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It's not an answer, but I'm trying to get WikipediaFS into Portage. Keep an eye on this thread for updates.

HTH,
-Dana