Bug 116515
| Summary: | chown: 'rpm.rpm': invalid user | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Walker Aumann <walkera> |
| Component: | rpm | Assignee: | Jeff Johnson <jbj> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | rawhide | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2004-02-22 21:43:49 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Both user/group "rpm" (== 37 iirc) are defined in the system accounts distributed with Red Hat distros, have been for years. Either install that package, or add the "rpm" user/group manually before installing/upgrading rpm. There is a slight chance that your getpwnam and getgrnam are failing with "rpm" as well. This is a bug reported in devel tree attributed to coreutils. Apparently chown user.group format is not working anymore. Looking at the chown man page what works is chown user:group. If this is a permanent change a number of rpm's need to be updated. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 Description of problem: When upgrading to latest rpm version, using 'yum upgrade', ... popt 100 % done 6/94 rpm 100 % done 7/94 /bin/chown: `rpm.rpm': invalid user gimp-print 100 % done 8/94 pyxf86config 100 % done 9/94 ... Checking in another window, /etc/passwd and /etc/group both know about rpm now. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rpm-4.3-0.13 How reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. Upgrade to rpm-4.3-0.13 via 'yum upgrade' 2. 3. Actual Results: Saw message: /bin/chown: `rpm.rpm': invalid user Expected Results: No error message Additional info: