[Mesa-users] Question-Mesa-installation-permission-issue

[Nancy Kain]

Hi again,
Pardon i forgot to have mesa-users in cc in my last mail!

so indeed, i had WSL 1 ! :/
So, I reinstalled Linux, updated and set WSL version to wsl2 and Ubuntu
20.4 as well as the SDK prerequisities all over again.

I defined a new directory directly in my home directory, downloaded
mesa-r15140 & SDK and did the sdk initialization properly. Then ./install
and it finally worked!!!  Now I can start testing mesa and my simulations!

Thank you for your support!

Greeting, Nancy

On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 3:28 PM Rob Farmer <robert.j.farmer37 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Please keep replies on the mesa-users list
>
> > N.B. I am using Linux/ ubuntu on windows 10.
>
> I assume this is with WSL2?
>
> > GNU Fortran (Ubuntu 9.3.0-17ubuntu1~20.04) 9.3.0
>
> What that shows the SDK was not initialized as its showing the wrong
> version of gfortran
>
> What is the output of the following commands?
>
> uname -s
> uname -m
> uname -r
>
> Rob
>
>
> On Thu, 5 Aug 2021 at 15:19, Nancy Kain <nancy.kain8890 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thank you for your reply!
>> Well, I removed the old directories, repeated the process without any
>> sudo.
>>
>> It still not initializing SDK properly, having a problem with the
>> mesasdk_init.sh, finding the error ' source $MESASDK_ROOT/bin/mesasdk_init.sh
>> '' (unsupported architecture),
>>
>> *At the End, after ./install i got of course an error :*
>> ../../utils/makefile_header:28: *** The MESASDK has not been initialized.
>> Stop.
>> /home/NaNiK/MESA58/mesa-r15140/const/make FAILED
>>
>> *Same issue after downloading the older version mesa-r12778 and SDK from
>> 20/03/25:*
>>
>> /home/NaNiK/MESA58old/mesa-r12778/const
>> building const package.
>> ../../utils/makefile_header:30: *** The MESASDK has not been
>> initialized.  Stop.
>> /home/NaNiK/MESA58old/mesa-r12778/const/make
>> FAILED
>> /home/NaNiK/MESA58old/mesa-r12778/const
>> ./build_and_test FAILED
>>
>> Maybe there is an issue of incompatibility somewhere, some linux-related
>> tool/ code i needed to have...
>> N.B. I am using Linux/ ubuntu on windows 10.
>> N.B. I am working in a directory ~/MESA58old equivalent to
>> /home/NaNiK/MESAold/ where i downloaded SDK and extracted mesa (which i
>> downloaded in my normal C driver /mnt/c/users/Anwender/mesaNC then unzip in
>> ~/MESA58old.
>> NaNiK is my non root user.
>>
>> So how do i proceed to solve the problem?
>>
>> I just want to add a notice that a check via 'gfortran --version' gives
>> me:
>>
>> GNU Fortran (Ubuntu 9.3.0-17ubuntu1~20.04) 9.3.0
>> Copyright (C) 2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
>> warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
>> PURPOSE.
>>
>> as if SDK is properly installed.
>>
>> best. Nancy
>>
>> Le jeu. 5 août 2021 à 12:10, Nancy Kain <nancy.kain8890 at gmail.com> a
>> écrit :
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> that's true, I was installing mesa using root. I'm new to linux /
>>> Ubuntu. Now I added a new non root user, even defined sudo user and used
>>> 'chmod u+rwx' and switched to it. I prepared mesasdk and mesa-r15140 in a
>>> directory inside my home directory.
>>>
>>> I still have 2 issues related to setting the environmental variables for
>>> SDK.
>>> The first one appears after I use ' source $MESASDK_ROOT/bin/mesasdk_init.sh
>>> '' (unsupported architecture),
>>> The second one  after ./install, As if i didn't install SDK, it's
>>> telling me to set the environmental variables even though i did that,
>>> probably related to the first error (unsupported architecture,
>>> mesa_init.sh)
>>>
>>> I even tried the svn tool and got the latest version of mesa, It even
>>> started the ./install but then stopped after a while with an error like
>>> '/home/NaNiNaNa/MESA48t/mesa-15140/utils
>>> ./build_and_test FAILED'
>>> A previous try gave similar error with another mesa dir than utils.
>>>
>>> I want to try a previous version of mesa (mesa-r12778 and
>>> mesasdk-x86_64-linux-20.3.2) but i do not think that would solve the
>>> problem since the initialization of SDK is facing the Checking architecture
>>> error already!
>>>
>>> I'll be thankful for any help!
>>>
>>> Best, Nancy
>>>
>>> On Tue, Aug 3, 2021 at 1:10 PM Rob Farmer <robert.j.farmer37 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>> You do not need to (and should not) install MESA with root privileges.
>>>> Simply calling ./install is sufficient. As you have both mesa and the sdk
>>>> in your home directory you can keep them there.
>>>>
>>>> Note MESA does not move files outside of MESA_DIR during installation
>>>> which is why it does not need to use root.
>>>>
>>>> Rob
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, 3 Aug 2021 at 12:10, Nancy Kain via Mesa-users <
>>>> mesa-users at lists.mesastar.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am installing the latest version of MESA (mesa-r15140), using Ubuntu
>>>>> / Linux on my windows 10, so far I have prepared & extracted in my home
>>>>> directory the mesasdk-x86_64-linux-21.4.1, & mesa-r15140. As administrator.
>>>>> In a final step, in the $MESA_DIR, typing './install' gives me an error:
>>>>> ''Mesa should not be installed using root privileges, sudo is a bad
>>>>> idea to solve the problem. *Contact the mesa-users mailing-list if
>>>>> you have permission issues.* Or change the ./install file to avoid
>>>>> this check''
>>>>>
>>>>> So for ex. ''sudo apt-get install'' ...is not helping. & i don't know
>>>>> how to change the ./install file to allow the installation on a root
>>>>> location. So I should probably change some permissions settings to let the
>>>>> mesa install but what/ where exactly?
>>>>>
>>>>> I hope this is the right address for this question,
>>>>> Thank You in advance,
>>>>> NK
>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>> mesa-users at lists.mesastar.org
>>>>> https://lists.mesastar.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-users
>>>>>
>>>>>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.mesastar.org/pipermail/mesa-users/attachments/20210805/b8126775/attachment.htm>