Bug 1069384

Summary: $ dnf update and yum update
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Flóki Pálsson <flokip>
Component: dnfAssignee: Packaging Maintenance Team <packaging-team-maint>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Flóki Pálsson 2014-02-24 21:47:20 UTC
Description of problem:
$ dnf update tryes to update.  yum update stops with "You need to be root to perform this command".


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
dnf-0.4.14-1.fc21.noarch
yum-3.4.3-138.fc21.noarch


How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  $ dnf update
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Actual results:
Running transaction
Error: Unable to initialize yumdb history: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '//var/lib/dnf'


Expected results:
You need to be root to perform this command.

Additional info:
$ yum update 
Loaded plugins: langpacks
You need to be root to perform this command.

Comment 1 Parag Nemade 2014-02-25 02:58:34 UTC
This looks another duplicate of bug 910133

Comment 2 Ales Kozumplik 2014-02-25 06:17:13 UTC
Yes, closing it as a dupe.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 910133 ***