Bug 24611

Summary:	rpm doesn't give nice errors when trying todo root only ops as non-root
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Hans de Goede <hdegoede>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Jeff Johnson <jbj>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Version:	7.1
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Description Hans de Goede 2001-01-22 17:10:14 UTC

It gives: unable to open rpm database.

I have seen many newbies been surprised by this an error saying root rights
are required for this would be a lott nicer.

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2001-08-30 18:12:05 UTC

Collecting rpm needing root problem at #49989

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 49989 ***

Comment 2 Jeff Johnson 2001-08-30 18:20:33 UTC

Ooops, that should have been #49899

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 49899 ***