Bug 308441

Summary: Confusing error message when mkinitrd run as non-root
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Lubomir Kundrak <lkundrak>
Component: mkinitrdAssignee: Peter Jones <pjones>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Fixed In Version: mkinitrd-6.0.19-4.fc8 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Lubomir Kundrak 2007-09-27 07:56:57 UTC 
Description of problem:

  27 if [ $UID != 0 ]; then
  28     error "mkinitrd must be run as root."
  29     exit 1
  30 fi

This happens within the very first lines of the mkinitrd script, prior to
"error" function being defined, which results in something like this:

$ mkinitrd
/sbin/mkinitrd: line 28: error: command not found
$

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

mkinitrd-6.0.9-7.1
Comment 1 Lubomir Kundrak 2007-11-16 10:08:03 UTC 
This seems fixed in mkinitrd-6.0.19-4.fc8