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Bug 119783

Summary:	rpm --test returns "error: can't create transaction lock" when run without root privs
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Gregory Leblanc <gleblanc>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Jeff Johnson <jbj>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Mike McLean <mikem>
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Priority:	medium
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Description Gregory Leblanc 2004-04-02 05:59:47 UTC

Description of problem:
Running 'rpm --test -Uvh somepackage.rpm' as a non-root user now
returns "error: can't create transaction lock".  Prior versions did
not return an error.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
rpm-4.3-0.22

How reproducible:
Always

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2004-04-06 03:38:16 UTC

Any SELinux error messages?

Comment 2 Gregory Leblanc 2004-04-06 05:35:09 UTC

In the logs, or on the console?  The console reports only the
transaction lock error.

From chatting with Jeff about this a bit, it seems that --test does
what it has always done, and it "works" doing that, despite this
error.  I haven't verified that personally, though it's on my list. 
If I understood correctly, he also said this was due to some internal
changes in RPM and not due to something else (though I did not ask
about SELinux).

Comment 3 Miloslav Trmac 2004-04-06 17:05:22 UTC

This happens even with SELinux completely disabled 
(In particular, I have tried rpm -ev --test boost).

Comment 4 Jeff Johnson 2004-04-07 23:49:52 UTC

Fixed in rpm-4.3.1-0.2 when built.

Comment 5 Jeff Johnson 2004-04-09 14:01:11 UTC

*** Bug 120496 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***