Description of problem: The fat filesystem does not have the concept of an execute bit nor user/group/other in file params. Recently a kernel change was made to enforce this. This causes chmod to fail on fat filesystems with any perm other than 755 or 555. This caused booty to fail when it tried to do a chmod 600 on elilo.conf and hence caused anaconda to crash. This patch sets the params to a valid 755 on ia64 installs. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
Created attachment 296647 [details] set default params to 755 for elilo on ia64.
Does elilo not support passwords?
(In reply to comment #2) > Does elilo not support passwords? No elilo does not have password support.
Also, if elilo did support passwords we still would not be able to make it non-readable since it is on a vfat filesystem. Since fat doesn't have the concept of a read bit it is always readable. In the past doing a chmod to make it non-readable appeared to work however once the system rebooted or the inode was just read in again the file would revert back to the 0755 permissions.
Fixed in git
Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping