Hello Adolf, I have been looking into this in depth and I cannot find a way to make the builder work with all its features unless it is running as root. So please add a “sudo” to the command line and let me know if that brings you any further. -Michael > On 30 Oct 2023, at 17:56, Adolf Belka wrote: > > Hi Michael, > > On 30/10/2023 11:01, Michael Tremer wrote: >> Hello Adolf, >> Thanks for giving this a try. Is there anything in the logs? > > In the forum I always remind people to look at the logs. On my Arch Linux systems I always search through the logs when I have a problem. > > For some reason with this pakfire package I seem to forget to look in the logs. > > Here is what I found when running pakfire-builder build beep/beep.nm (adding --debug made no difference) > > pakfire[2137]: Mounting /var/tmp/pakfire-root-KRBTNG from pakfire_ramdisk (tmpfs - (null)) > pakfire[2137]: Could not mount /var/tmp/pakfire-root-KRBTNG: Operation not permitted > pakfire[2137]: Could not mount ramdisk at /var/tmp/pakfire-root-KRBTNG ((null)): Unknown error -1 > > Regards, > > Adolf. > >> You can add —-debug to get some more output. >> Best, >> -Michael >>> On 29 Oct 2023, at 13:23, Adolf Belka wrote: >>> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> I updated my pakfire branch by doing a git pull with all the latest changes and built everything again. >>> >>> Then tested out by running sudo pakfire-builder build beep/beep.nm >>> >>> Result was again just going to the prompt with nothing happening. >>> >>> Ran the commands with gdb and got following result. >>> >>> sudo gdb pakfire-builder >>> GNU gdb (GDB) 13.2 >>> Copyright (C) 2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc. >>> License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later >>> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. >>> There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. >>> Type "show copying" and "show warranty" for details. >>> This GDB was configured as "x86_64-pc-linux-gnu". >>> Type "show configuration" for configuration details. >>> For bug reporting instructions, please see: >>> . >>> Find the GDB manual and other documentation resources online at: >>> . >>> >>> For help, type "help". >>> Type "apropos word" to search for commands related to "word"... >>> Reading symbols from pakfire-builder... >>> (gdb) run build beep/beep.nm >>> Starting program: /usr/bin/pakfire-builder build beep/beep.nm >>> [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] >>> Using host libthread_db library "/usr/lib/libthread_db.so.1". >>> [New Thread 0x7ffff57dd6c0 (LWP 12756)] >>> [Thread 0x7ffff57dd6c0 (LWP 12756) exited] >>> [Inferior 1 (process 12752) exited with code 0377] >>> (gdb) >>> >>> >>> Regards, >>> Adolf. >>> >>> -- >>> Sent from my laptop >>> > > -- > Sent from my laptop