Bug 476048

Summary:	"yum provides /some/file" fails (no cache)
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Horst H. von Brand <vonbrand>
Component:	yum	Assignee:	Seth Vidal <skvidal>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	rawhide	CC:	ffesti, james.antill, katzj, pmatilai, tim.lauridsen
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Description Horst H. von Brand 2008-12-11 17:53:44 UTC

Description of problem:
I tried:

$ yum provides /usr/lib64/gtk-2.0/modules/libpk-gtk-module.so
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit
Importing additional filelist information
Error: Caching enabled but no local cache of //var/cache/yum/rawhide/4416992610e6a7aaf089a4c6cba2a694887f6c70-filelists.sqlite.bz2 from rawhide

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
yum-3.2.20-7.fc11.noarch

How reproducible:
Always, the repo configuration doesn't matter

Steps to Reproduce:
1. yum provides /etc
2.
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Actual results:
Above message

Expected results:
Get the missing file and continue

Additional info:

Comment 1 seth vidal 2008-12-11 18:19:13 UTC

If you run it as root does it work?

Comment 2 Horst H. von Brand 2008-12-11 19:37:27 UTC

Yes, running as root does work.

Comment 3 seth vidal 2008-12-11 19:43:21 UTC

right, then what is it you want this to do? The data yum needs to do the lookup is not present and you're not running as root. So it can't write to the paths where it normally would.