Bug 141015
| Summary: | rpm --root generates "error: can't create transaction lock" when run as non-root | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Dimi Paun <dimi> |
| Component: | rpm | Assignee: | Jeff Johnson <jbj> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 3 | CC: | nobody+pnasrat, ralphw |
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| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2004-11-28 22:47:16 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Running rpm --root as non-root user makes no sense, there is a chroot(2) call that is root-only. hi, i am using FC3 and I need to do "rpm --initdb" with a non-root user. i get the following error: can't create transaction lock. i tried to find a fix on google but i failed to find one. as i mentioned before i'm using FC3 and i RPM 4.3.2 and i tried this with RPM 4.3.3 also, the result was the same. can you please help me... thx Hi, just confirming that this is a problem for me as well, but I found a workaround for those who are willing to sacrifice some security... ralphw@rhessql5:~> rpm --dbpath `pwd`/rpm --initdb error: can't create transaction lock [omitted strace rpm --dbpath `pwd`/rpm --initdb 2>&1 |tail -100 that discovered permission denied on /var/lock/rpm/transaction] ralphw@rhessql5:~> su - Password: :- chmod 0666 /var/lock/rpm/transaction :- ls -l /var/lock/rpm/transaction -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Jul 1 20:52 /var/lock/rpm/transaction :- exit ralphw@rhessql5:~> rpm --dbpath `pwd`/rpm --initdb ralphw@rhessql5:~> rpm --dbpath `pwd`/rpm --prefix `pwd` --nodeps -i *.rpm ralphw@rhessql5:~> Sorry, I forgot to specify that I am on a Red Hat Enterprise Server, uname -a: Linux rhessql5.funk.com 2.6.9-5.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Jan 5 19:30:39 EST 2005 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: There seems to be a bug in the rpm shipped with FC3. Namely, when I run it as a regular user, with the --root option, I get the the: error: can't create transaction lock But it works just fine as root: [dimi@dimi ~]$ rpm --root /home/dimi/dev/kogaion/virtualroot --initdb error: can't create transaction lock [dimi@dimi ~]$ su Password: [root@dimi ~]# rpm --root /home/dimi/dev/kogaion/virtualroot --initdb I quick google for the problem reveals that a very similar bug has been fixed not long ago (in RPM version 4.3.1) for the non-root 'rpm --test' case: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=119783 It looks as if the --root case have been missed by that fixed. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rpm-4.3.2-21 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. simply run "rpm --root /tmp/virtualroot --initdb" as non-root Actual Results: error: can't create transaction lock Expected Results: no error result, it should just work. Additional info: similar bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=119783