Permission problem with ROOT binary install on OSX Yosemite

I’m having what might be a very Mac-oriented problem. When installing ROOT 6 from binary dmg files the resulting root directory permissions are somehow corrupted. When looking at the permissions in a Finder window it says “Fetching…” rather than my username and group (see attached screen dump). Also, when listing the permissions I get some numbers instead of my username

edvinsidebo@psidebo:/Applications$ ls -lad VLC.app/
drwxr-xr-x@ 3 edvinsidebo admin 102B Feb 2 2014 VLC.app//
edvinsidebo@psidebo:/Applications$ ls -lad root_v6.06.02/
drwxr-xr-x 19 14806 1081 646B Mar 17 13:03 root_v6.06.02//

I tried changing the permissions with chmod but without success. I cannot run the tutorials e.g. at tutorials/tmva because make fails since I’m lacking permissions (I can’t write at all:
root [0] TFile f(“hej.root”,“RECREATE”)
SysError in TFile::TFile: file hej.root can not be opened (Permission denied)
)

How can I resolve this?


Hi,

what version of osx are you running?
what version did you download?
Is the version of the binaries the corresponding one for your setup?

Danilo

Hi Danilo,
I’m on 10.10.5 and downloaded the binary root_v6.06.02.macosx64-10.10-clang70.dmg
Edvin

Did you perform an update of the os at some point? Maybe after installing?
I am having a hard time in reproducing this unwanted behaviour.

Cheers,
Danilo

Hi Danilo,
no I installed this root today. is there any other information that would be helpful?

Edvin

Hi,

can you try building from sources?
root.cern.ch/building-root

Cheers,
Danilo

Hi Danilo,
yes this works. Too bad that the binaries aren’t working though, building from source is a lot slower.

Hi,

I mark this as solved. It is understood that we will triple check the installation for binaries on the ROOT side.

Cheers,
D