Bug 108759
| Summary: | RFE: Better error message when attempting to install / upgrade / erase packages as non root user | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Mike MacCana <mmaccana> |
| Component: | rpm | Assignee: | Paul Nasrat <nobody+pnasrat> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 9 | Keywords: | FutureFeature |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Enhancement | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2005-11-29 15:52:13 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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It is possible for users to have local rpmdb's for testing/or in a chroot, etc: rpm --dbpath ~/rpmdb -qa rpm --dbpath ~/rpmdb --justdb -ivh rpm/RPMS/dummy-1.0-1.i386.rpm Preparing... ########################################### [100%] rpm --dbpath ~/rpmdb -qa dummy-1.0-1.i386 rpm --dbpath ~/rpmdb --justdb -e dummy The permission message is thus probably as specific as we can get. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031015 Firebird/0.7 Description of problem: When attempting to install / erase / upgrade packages as a non root user, users get the following feedback: error: cannot get exclusive lock on /var/lib/rpm/Packages error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Operation not permitted (1) error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm Could the error message be made more explicit, specifically mentioning the users need to be root to perform the action? I run Red hat training courses and a lot of otherwise sharp students get confused by the current, unclear error message. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Attempt to install / upgrade / erase a package as a non root user Additional info: