Jim Meyering <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > FYI, > > [cc'ing the yum list, because yum may want to make the permissions > of certain files it creates be independent of root's umask ] > > When I do things as root, I have umask set to 077. > That appears to have led yum to set the permissions on all files in > /var/lib/yum/rpmdb-indexes/ to -rw-------. > That in turn makes commands run by non-root like "yum info libvirt" fail, > and it also makes libguestfs' build process fail like this: > > febootstrap: external python program failed, see earlier error messages > > The previous error it's referring to appears to be this: > > IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '//var/lib/yum/rpmdb-indexes/version' > > I've just run this command (as root), > > chmod go+r /var/lib/yum/rpmdb-indexes/* > > the libguestfs build was finally able to complete. > And "yum info ..." became usable again. > > This is on Fedora 15. Note that I _think_ both sides of this are fixed in 3.4.0, but testing by anyone crazy enough to have a non-default umask is always good :). -- James Antill -- james@xxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum
