Bug 87603

Summary:	RFE: more sane error handling
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Gerald Teschl <gt>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Jeff Johnson <jbj>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Mike McLean <mikem>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	9	CC:	mitr
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OS:	Linux
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Last Closed:	2003-04-03 00:14:00 UTC	Type:	---
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Description Gerald Teschl 2003-03-30 13:30:21 UTC

I just happened to type rpm -e foo as normal user with
the following result:

1) first there was a 10 sec pause
2) then numerous db4 errors would scroll by for
another 10 secs

Why doesn't it just say

permission denied 

and stops!? Moreover, many of the error messages contain
no printable characters.

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2003-03-31 14:22:06 UTC

Here's what I see, rpm-4.1.1 and later:
    bash$ rpm -e
    rpm: no packages given for erase
    bash$ rpm -e foo
    error: package foo is not installed
Looks sane to me.

Comment 2 Gerald Teschl 2003-03-31 17:38:58 UTC

I say try to erase a package which is installed as a non privelidged user
(who does not have rw access to the database).

Comment 3 Jeff Johnson 2003-04-03 00:14:00 UTC

This too does not seem excessively insane:

bash$ rpm -e time
error: cannot get exclusive lock on /var/lib/rpm/Packages
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Operation not permitted (1)
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm

There are actually 3 different API layers, each with different info.

Comment 4 Gerald Teschl 2003-04-03 08:37:58 UTC

This is what I get

[gerald@soliton gerald]$ rpm -q rpm
rpm-4.2-0.69
[gerald@soliton gerald]$ rpm -e nedit
rpmdb: c_del: attempt to modify a read-only tree
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_del: Permission denied
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_del: Permission denied
error: error(13) removing record "nedit" from Name
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_del: Permission denied
error: error(13) removing record "nc" from Basenames
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_del: Permission denied
error: error(13) removing record "nedit" from Basenames
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_del: Permission denied
error: error(13) removing record "nc.1x.gz" from Basenames
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_del: Permission denied
error: error(13) removing record "nedit.1x.gz" from Basenames
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_del: Permission denied
error: error(13) removing record "net-nedit.desktop" from Basenames
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_del: Permission denied
error: error(13) removing record "nedit-5.3" from Basenames
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_put: Permission denied
error: error(13) storing record "README" into Basenames
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_put: Permission denied
error: error(13) storing record "ReleaseNotes" into Basenames
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_del: Permission denied
error: error(13) removing record "nedit.doc" from Basenames
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_put: Permission denied
error: error(13) storing record "Applications/Editors" into Group
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_put: Permission denied
error: error(13) storing record "/usr/bin/desktop-file-install" into Requirename
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_put: Permission denied
error: error(13) storing record "libICE.so.6" into Requirename
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_put: Permission denied
error: error(13) storing record "libSM.so.6" into Requirename
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_put: Permission denied
error: error(13) storing record "libX11.so.6" into Requirename
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_put: Permission denied
error: error(13) storing record "libXext.so.6" into Requirename
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_put: Permission denied
error: error(13) storing record "libXm.so.3" into Requirename
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_put: Permission denied
error: error(13) storing record "libXmu.so.6" into Requirename
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_put: Permission denied
error: error(13) storing record "libXp.so.6" into Requirename
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_put: Permission denied
error: error(13) storing record "libXpm.so.4" into Requirename
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_put: Permission denied
error: error(13) storing record "libXt.so.6" into Requirename
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_put: Permission denied
error: error(13) storing record "libc.so.6" into Requirename
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_put: Permission denied
error: error(13) storing record "libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0)" into Requirename
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_put: Permission denied
error: error(13) storing record "libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1)" into Requirename
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_put: Permission denied
error: error(13) storing record "libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1.3)" into Requirename
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_put: Permission denied
error: error(13) storing record "libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3)" into Requirename
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_put: Permission denied
error: error(13) storing record "libm.so.6" into Requirename
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_put: Permission denied
error: error(13) storing record "libm.so.6(GLIBC_2.0)" into Requirename
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_put: Permission denied
error: error(13) storing record "openmotif" into Requirename
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_del: Permission denied
error: error(13) removing record "nedit" from Providename
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_put: Permission denied
error: error(13) storing record "/usr/X11R6/bin/" into Dirnames
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_put: Permission denied
error: error(13) storing record "/usr/X11R6/man/man1/" into Dirnames
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_put: Permission denied
error: error(13) storing record "/usr/share/applications/" into Dirnames
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_put: Permission denied
error: error(13) storing record "/usr/share/doc/" into Dirnames
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_del: Permission denied
error: error(13) removing record "/usr/share/doc/nedit-5.3/" from Dirnames
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_put: Permission denied
error: error(13) storing record "" into Requireversion
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_put: Permission denied
error: error(13) storing record "" into Requireversion
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_put: Permission denied
error: error(13) storing record "" into Requireversion
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_put: Permission denied
error: error(13) storing record "" into Requireversion
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_put: Permission denied
error: error(13) storing record "" into Requireversion
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_put: Permission denied
error: error(13) storing record "" into Requireversion
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_put: Permission denied
error: error(13) storing record "" into Requireversion
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_put: Permission denied
error: error(13) storing record "" into Requireversion
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_put: Permission denied
error: error(13) storing record "" into Requireversion
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_put: Permission denied
error: error(13) storing record "" into Requireversion
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_put: Permission denied
error: error(13) storing record "" into Requireversion
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_put: Permission denied
error: error(13) storing record "" into Requireversion
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_put: Permission denied
error: error(13) storing record "" into Requireversion
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_put: Permission denied
error: error(13) storing record "" into Requireversion
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_put: Permission denied
error: error(13) storing record "" into Requireversion
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_put: Permission denied
error: error(13) storing record "" into Requireversion
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_put: Permission denied
error: error(13) storing record "" into Requireversion
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_put: Permission denied
error: error(13) storing record "" into Requireversion
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_put: Permission denied
error: error(13) storing record "3.0.4-1" into Requireversion
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_put: Permission denied
error: error(13) storing record "4.0-1" into Requireversion
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_put: Permission denied
error: error(13) storing record "5.3-4" into Provideversion
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_del: Permission denied
error: error(13) removing record "ÃJ>Â¡" from Installtid
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_del: Permission denied
error: error(13) removing record "Â¡cci|Ã·Ã²ÃÃÃ¬Z3{
|8434b508eb3421444a0f40bcbb010e61531889a4" from Sigmd5
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_del: Permission denied
error: error(13) removing record "8434b508eb3421444a0f40bcbb010e61531889a4" from
Sha1header
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_del: Permission denied
error: error(13) removing record "Â®Ã¹%Ã"Ã¾6Ã7(Â¦`" from Filemd5s
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_del: Permission denied
error: error(13) removing record "=ÃIÂ¢Ã]Ã·EÃ¦o" from Filemd5s
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_del: Permission denied
error: error(13) removing record "-LÃ´" from Filemd5s
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_del: Permission denied
error: error(13) removing record "Âº5Ã}â9B|Â±Ã©#ÃÃ" from Filemd5s
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_del: Permission denied
error: error(13) removing record "ÃbÂ®5)ÃºÃ¥ÃÂ§aÃ¯ÃÃ" from Filemd5s
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_del: Permission denied
error: error(13) removing record "Ã/Â¿8ÃÃ«UcÃ4SÃµÃ°Ã" from Filemd5s
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_del: Permission denied
error: error(13) removing record "ÃÃ³"ÃºÃ«iXL;ÃBC
Ã" from Filemd5s
error: db4 error(13) from dbcursor->c_del: Permission denied
error: error(13) removing record "Â¤[ÃµÃ½Â¯Â½5gÂ¹IWÃ½" from Filemd5s
error: db4 error(13) from db->close: Permission denied
error: db4 error(13) from db->close: Permission denied
error: db4 error(13) from db->close: Permission denied
error: db4 error(13) from db->close: Permission denied

Comment 5 Gerald Teschl 2003-04-03 08:43:02 UTC

Ok. So now I am confused. I just tried this on a freshly installed box
and I get the same result as you!? The only difference is that the
above box was upgraded from 8.0.94, whereas the working box has a
fresh install from scratch.