Bug 1077173

Summary: IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/lib/dnf/groups.json'
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Tim Lauridsen <tim.lauridsen>
Component: dnfAssignee: Ales Kozumplik <akozumpl>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Fixed In Version: dnf-0.4.19-1.fc20 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Tim Lauridsen 2014-03-17 11:54:48 UTC
Description of problem:

Get an error when running group operations as non root

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
0.4.18

How reproducible:
everytime

Steps to Reproduce:
1. dnf group list
2.
3.

Actual results:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/dnf", line 35, in <module>
    main.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dnf/cli/main.py", line 242, in user_main
    errcode = main(args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dnf/cli/main.py", line 74, in main
    return 1
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dnf/base.py", line 116, in __exit__
    self.close()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dnf/base.py", line 245, in close
    self._store_persistent_data()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dnf/base.py", line 171, in _store_persistent_data
    self._group_persistor.save()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dnf/persistor.py", line 55, in save
    with open(self.db, 'w') as db:
IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/lib/dnf/groups.json'

Expected results:
No traceback

Additional info:

Comment 1 Ales Kozumplik 2014-03-17 12:48:38 UTC
My bad, will fix it. Since it's only affecting non-root I wouldn't like to unpush https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/dnf-0.4.18-1.fc20 . But who knows how what the karma is giong to do.

Comment 2 Tim Lauridsen 2014-03-17 13:48:34 UTC
Fine with me, most users will use dnf as root.

It makes yumex-dnf blow up when closing, but i can live with that until a fix is released. :-)

Comment 3 Ales Kozumplik 2014-03-18 21:03:33 UTC
Fixed upstream by fc9f912.

Tim, if you don't want to wait for a proper release, you can try our CI repos: 

http://jenkins.cloud.fedoraproject.org/job/DNF/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/

we're experiencing various issues there lately but all should be fine soon and the builds there are all latest & greatest.

Comment 4 Tim Lauridsen 2014-03-19 05:48:10 UTC
Thanks, I will test it when an updated build pops up.

looking at the code it should fix the issue

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2014-03-24 09:05:38 UTC
dnf-0.4.19-1.fc20 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 20.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/dnf-0.4.19-1.fc20

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2014-03-25 08:13:15 UTC
dnf-0.4.19-1.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.