Closed #355.
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First part was already fixed in commit
df053dd36461042e4d11a21a97e9be9058204658, second half now in commit
b89eb35c6034d43a8048ac9d452a1921596071a7:
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[pmatilai@sopuli rpm]$ ./rpm -e mlocate
error: can't create transaction lock on /var/lib/rpm/.rpm.lock (Permission
denied)
[pmatilai@sopuli
In the meanwhile I manually merged this one with somewhat different commit
message, the EROFS-specific test was dumb anyhow.
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Yeah, I just found it too. In principle the closest errno would be EBADF
though, which is not much more user-friendly :(. So I'm not sure what the best
response to this is.
>EBADF cmd is F_SETLK or F_SETLKW and the file descriptor open mode
> doesn't match with the
It's actually rpmlock_acquire not setting errno when it returns with a failure
when asked to write-lock a read-only lock.
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I assumed you wished rpm --erase to function.
The important part of the error message is correct even if errno is incorrect
when stdin is redirected.
FWIW, I can't think of any rpm mode that actually reads from stdin (passwords
are read using getpass(3)).
Meanwhile errno is (likely) being
I don't understand. What are you asking for?
This is a UI bug, triggered when a non-query `rpm` command is run without
permissions _and_ without a tty on STDIN.
I don't see what more information I can provide. Running `rpm` _with_
permissions doesn't print an error message; I checked and it
Run as root.
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```
$ rpm -e mlocate
error: can't create transaction lock on /var/lib/rpm/.rpm.lock (Permission
denied)
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