Bug 1902720

Summary: HOME=/root osinfo-query os fails with Error loading OS data: Unexpected file type
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Reporter: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones>
Component: libosinfoAssignee: Victor Toso <victortoso>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Radek Duda <rduda>
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Priority: medium    
Version: ---CC: cfergeau, chhu, juzhou, mxie, rduda, tzheng, xiaodwan
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: Triaged
Target Release: 8.0   
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Fixed In Version: libosinfo-1.9.0-2.el8 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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: 1942431 1989971 (view as bug list) Environment:
Last Closed: 2022-05-10 14:17:40 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Richard W.M. Jones 2020-11-30 13:53:07 UTC 
Description of problem:

Quite simply if you run libosinfo / osinfo utility with a bogus
or unreadable $HOME environment variable then it fails like this:

$ HOME=/root osinfo-query os
Error loading OS data: Unexpected file type

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

This happens upstream, eg:
libosinfo-1.8.0-3.fc33.x86_64

and also in RHEL 8 with eg:
libosinfo-1.8.0-1.el8.x86_64

How reproducible:

100%

Steps to Reproduce:

See above.
Comment 1 Richard W.M. Jones 2021-03-22 11:11:37 UTC 
For a bit of background see comments on this bug
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1901423
especially
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1901423#c18
Comment 4 John Ferlan 2021-10-18 15:24:17 UTC 
Reassign Fabiano's bugs to Victor for libosinfo & osinfo-db
Comment 6 Radek Duda 2022-01-10 17:58:17 UTC 
I reproduced the bug with ibosinfo-1.9.0-1.el8:
 HOME=/root osinfo-query os
Error loading OS data: Unexpected file type

Installed  ibosinfo-1.9.0-2.el8:
HOME=/root osinfo-query os
Error loading OS data: Can't read path /root/.config/osinfo

Just to be sure I've launched:
#osinfo-query os
which gives then a list of OSes.

As per https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1942431#c7 I believe this solves the bug.
Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2022-05-10 14:17:40 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory (libosinfo bug fix and enhancement update), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2022:1914