Bug 426470

Summary: Unhelpful error message
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Bastien Nocera <bnocera>
Component: yum-utilsAssignee: Seth Vidal <skvidal>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: rawhideCC: pmatilai, tim.lauridsen
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Fixed In Version: 1.1.10-1.fc7 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Bastien Nocera 2007-12-21 11:06:25 UTC
yum-utils.noarch 0:1.1.9-1.fc9

$ debuginfo-install evolution
enabling livna-development-debuginfo
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/debuginfo-install", line 109, in <module>
    util = DebugInfoInstall()
  File "/usr/bin/debuginfo-install", line 38, in __init__
    self.main()
  File "/usr/bin/debuginfo-install", line 59, in main
    self.doRepoSetup(thisrepo=r.id)
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 118, in doRepoSetup
    yum.YumBase._getRepos(self, thisrepo=thisrepo, doSetup=True)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 348, in _getRepos
    self._repos.doSetup(thisrepo)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/repos.py", line 58, in doSetup
    repo.setup(self.ayum.conf.cache, self.ayum.mediagrabber)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 720, in setup
    self.dirSetup()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 473, in dirSetup
    "Cannot access repository dir %s" % dir
yum.Errors.RepoError: Cannot access repository dir
//var/cache/yum/livna-development-debuginfo

Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2007-12-21 11:07:45 UTC
Arf. Works fine when run as root. Maybe it should have a message like yum itself
warning the user.

Comment 2 Seth Vidal 2007-12-21 18:52:15 UTC
Fixed in  upstream 1.1.10 will have the fixed version. Thank you for the report
and for debugging it for us.

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2008-01-07 01:16:23 UTC
yum-utils-1.1.10-1.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update yum-utils'

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2008-01-07 01:21:01 UTC
yum-utils-1.1.10-1.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update yum-utils'

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2008-01-15 22:53:28 UTC
yum-utils-1.1.10-1.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2008-01-15 23:12:31 UTC
yum-utils-1.1.10-1.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.