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Version-Release number of selected component: yum-utils-1.1.31-4.fc17 Additional info: libreport version: 2.0.13 abrt_version: 2.0.10 cmdline: /usr/bin/python -tt /usr/sbin/yumdb sync-force kernel: 3.5.0-2.fc17.x86_64 backtrace: :shutil.py:83:copyfile:IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/cache/yum/x86_64/17/Dropbox/repomd.xml.old.tmp' : :Traceback (most recent call last): : File "/usr/sbin/yumdb", line 249, in <module> : main() : File "/usr/sbin/yumdb", line 245, in main : run_cmd(yb, args) : File "/usr/sbin/yumdb", line 169, in run_cmd : apkg = yb.pkgSack.searchPkgTuple(pkg.pkgtup) : File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 1013, in <lambda> : pkgSack = property(fget=lambda self: self._getSacks(), : File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 777, in _getSacks : self.repos.populateSack(which=repos) : File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/repos.py", line 302, in populateSack : self.doSetup() : File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/repos.py", line 127, in doSetup : self.retrieveAllMD() : File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/repos.py", line 83, in retrieveAllMD : if repo._async and repo._commonLoadRepoXML(repo): : File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1324, in _commonLoadRepoXML : if self._latestRepoXML(local): : File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1293, in _latestRepoXML : oxml = self._saveOldRepoXML(local) : File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/yumRepo.py", line 1151, in _saveOldRepoXML : shutil.copy2(local, old_local) : File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/shutil.py", line 128, in copy2 : copyfile(src, dst) : File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/shutil.py", line 83, in copyfile : with open(dst, 'wb') as fdst: :IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/cache/yum/x86_64/17/Dropbox/repomd.xml.old.tmp' : :Local variables in innermost frame: :src: '/var/cache/yum/x86_64/17/Dropbox/repomd.xml' :dst: '/var/cache/yum/x86_64/17/Dropbox/repomd.xml.old.tmp' :fsrc: <closed file '/var/cache/yum/x86_64/17/Dropbox/repomd.xml', mode 'rb' at 0x2215c90> :fn: '/var/cache/yum/x86_64/17/Dropbox/repomd.xml.old.tmp' :st: posix.stat_result(st_mode=33188, st_ino=5312, st_dev=64768L, st_nlink=1, st_uid=0, st_gid=0, st_size=951, st_atime=1344286371, st_mtime=1335412034, st_ctime=1344286181)
Too bad Abrt does not report UID anymore. Not sure if this is the case, but yumdb probably ran as non-root user, and since it tried to use root cache, probably cacheonly. This is a Yum bug, very likely a dupe of 830523. Could you find the version of Yum installed? If it's yum-3.4.3-28.fc17+ I'll reopen this. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 830523 ***