On Mon, 2014-05-05 at 02:11 +1000, Ankur Sinha wrote: > Hi, Hi, > Recently, the value of my PATH variable seems to be messed up: > > > > [asinha@ankur-laptop ~]$ echo $PATH > > /usr/lib64/ccache:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/home/asinha/.local/bin:/home/asinha/bin The same. > /usr/bin is supposed to come before /usr/sbin etc. This makes mock throw > an error: > > > > mock -r fedora-rawhide-x86_64 rebuild ./python-taskreport-1.2.1-1.fc20.src.rpm > > > > ERROR: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted > > > > ERROR: The most common cause for this error is trying to run /usr/sbin/mock as an unprivileged user. > > ERROR: Check your path to make sure that /usr/bin/ is listed before /usr/sbin, or manually run /usr/bin/mock to see if that fixes this problem. > > Running /usr/bin/mock.. works, of course. I've checked the relevant > places, and everything seems to be in order. The EUID of my user is 1000 > too, so there isn't a reason that /etc/profile should place the > directories incorrectly. Would anyone have an hints on correcting this? > There's nothing in my user's .bash_profile or .bashrc that modifies path > either. > > I use byobu with a tmux backend, but I don't think that matters. I > opened a separate gnome-terminal without byobu and the EUID is correct > there too. > > > [asinha@ankur-laptop ~]$ id asinha > > uid=1000(asinha) gid=1000(asinha) groups=1000(asinha),10(wheel),135(mock) I've filled bug for this[0] some times ago. [0]https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1092612 -- -Igor Gnatenko -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct