From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020830 Description of problem: No applications should write to the /usr partition. The disk should be able to be mounted read-only so that diskless and shared /usr environments can exist. redhat-config-date Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/redhat-config-date/mainWindow.py", line 85, in ok_clicked self.dateBackend.writeNtpConfig(sysTimeServer, ntpServerList) File "/usr/share/redhat-config-date/dateBackend.py", line 126, in writeNtpConfig fd = open("/usr/share/redhat-config-date/ntpservers", "w") IOError: [Errno 30] Read-only file system: '/usr/share/redhat-config-date/ntpservers' Application does not work with a read-only root. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Mount /usr read-only 2.run redhat-config-date 3.change to use a timeserver Actual Results: Application has a traceback. Expected Results: Should work Additional info:
I will move the ntpservers file into /etc/ where it belongs.
Should be fixed in CVS now. redhat-config-date-1.5.2-12 will move the file into /etc/ntp/ntpservers instead of /usr/share/redhat-config-date/ntpservers.