Bug 240711 - running pirut as non-root user causes crash due to file permissions
Summary: running pirut as non-root user causes crash due to file permissions
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: pirut
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jeremy Katz
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-05-21 01:48 UTC by Eric Harney
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:12 UTC (History)
0 users

Fixed In Version: 1.3.9-1.fc7
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2007-08-10 22:24:54 UTC
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2007-05-21 01:48 UTC, Eric Harney 		no flags Details
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Description Eric Harney 2007-05-21 01:48:21 UTC 
Description of problem:
Running pirut as a non-root user causes a crash if yum data has been cleaned and
not replaced

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
pirut-1.3.7-1.fc7

How reproducible:
Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. # yum clean all   (as root)
2. $ pirut    (as user)
  
Actual results:
pirut crashes with a python dump due to permission errors, trying to create
/var/cache/yum/development/repomd.xml as a user

Additional info:
See attached stack trace from pirut
Comment 1 Eric Harney 2007-05-21 01:48:21 UTC 
Created attachment 155066 [details]
pirut trace
Comment 2 Jeremy Katz 2007-05-22 19:43:16 UTC 
Exception caught and given a bit more nicely as an error in CVS.  Won't make F7
final, but should then get pushed out in an update
Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2007-07-23 18:50:15 UTC 
pirut-1.3.9-1.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2007-08-10 22:24:28 UTC 
pirut-1.3.9-1.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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