On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 01:08:39PM +0200, Manuel Wolfshant wrote: > Clark Williams wrote: > >Manuel Wolfshant wrote: > > > >>On 01/05/2008 12:49 AM, Michael_E_Brown@xxxxxxxx wrote: > >>Hey all > >> > >> Did I hit a bug here or am I doing something very stupid ? According > >>to the paragraph above, I should either be allowed to build as user, or > >>be asked for the root password. Helas.... > >>[wolfy@wolfy ~]$ id wolfy > >>uid=500(wolfy) gid=500(wolfy) groups=500(wolfy),497(mock) > >>context=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t > >>[wolfy@wolfy ~]$ mock -r fedora-5-x86_64-epel > >>/tmp/rpmlint/devel/rpmlint-0.82-3.fc9.src.rpm > >>ERROR: [Errno 1] Operation not permitted > > > >Hmmm, looks like a bug to me. Please file a BZ against mock. > > > >Just to be sure I understand, this is from an F7 host? I wonder if there's > >a config > >difference for the consolehelper stuff on F7? > > > >Clark > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=436270 Most likely cause of this problem is a bad PATH that has /usr/sbin/ before /usr/bin/, meaning that the consolehelper suid utility is *not* run, but you end up running /usr/sbin/mock directly, which expects to only ever be run with elevated privs. Assuming this is the case, there are two possible fixes: A) fix your path or B) run /usr/bin/mock directly -- Michael -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list