On Fri, 2018-07-06 at 12:33 +0100, Russel Winder wrote: > By pure fluke I ran "dnf check-update --refresh" not as root and got: > > RuntimeError: C++ std::exception: Failed to open backup database: /var/lib/dnf/history/history-2015-04-01.sqlite > > Surprising in that I have run this command not as root before and it didn't > fail, but the file was owned root:root on 0600 so the failure is not a > surprise. The file being in /var I took the view that it is ephemeral and so > deleted it. > > Now as root I get proper behaviour, and indeed as not root I get proper > behaviour. That's interesting, but rather odd, as it suggests that run as root dnf just *happens* to have a *different* issue involving the same file (since obviously, when run as root, it wouldn't have had any problem accessing it). I don't suppose you kept a backup of the file? That would be very helpful for investigating the problem... -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ test mailing list -- test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to test-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/FMFYVTT6XDJXIT6E6YUGGXUZQ7OEU6BS/
