Description of problem: [notting@nostromo: ~/prog/rpms/xorg-x11-drv-i810/devel]$ mock -r fedora-devel-i386 xorg-x11-drv-i810-2.2.1-15.fc9.src.rpm INFO: mock.py version 0.9.7 starting... State Changed: init plugins State Changed: start INFO: Start(xorg-x11-drv-i810-2.2.1-15.fc9.src.rpm) Config(fedora-development-i386) State Changed: lock buildroot State Changed: clean State Changed: init ERROR: Could not create dir /var/lib/mock//fedora-development-i386/result. Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/lib/mock//fedora-development-i386/result' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/mock/util.py", line 61, in mkdirIfAbsent os.makedirs(dirName) File "/usr/lib64/python2.5/os.py", line 172, in makedirs mkdir(name, mode) OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/lib/mock//fedora-development-i386/result' ERROR: Exception(xorg-x11-drv-i810-2.2.1-15.fc9.src.rpm) Config(fedora-development-i386) 0 minutes 0 seconds INFO: Results and/or logs in: /var/lib/mock//fedora-development-i386/result ERROR: Could not create dir /var/lib/mock//fedora-development-i386/result. Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/lib/mock//fedora-development-i386/result' Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): mock-0.9.7-1.fc9.noarch How reproducible: Every time.
(Yes, I am in the mock group.)
wrong perms on /var/lib/mock on your machine. They should be: $ ls -la /var/lib/mock total 24 drwxrwsr-x 3 root mock 4096 2008-03-13 15:11 . drwxr-xr-x 36 root root 4096 2008-03-20 13:26 ..