mock builds failing under CentOS 4.4 host

[Jeff Sheltren]

On Sep 8, 2006, at 5:29 PM, Jeff Sheltren wrote:

> I'm not sure if it was the move to CentOS 4.4 or what, but now my  
> mock builds are failing on CentOS 4.4 hosts where they were working  
> fine a couple weeks ago...
>
> Digging through root.log shows this message buried in the middle of  
> all the 'yum install' output:
> error: can't create transaction lock on /var/lib/mock/fedora-4-i386- 
> core/root/var/lock/rpm/transaction
>
> So far, I've had similar results building for FC3/FC4/EL4, so I'm  
> guessing its a host machine issue rather than a chroot issue.  Has  
> anyone else come across this already?  I am using an older version  
> of mock - 0.4-2 on one machine, and 0.4-5 on another; has something  
> changed since then to fix this issue?  I guess I need to upgrade  
> eventually to get the newer mock config setup, etc. but I've been  
> putting that off...
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff
>

Sorry, but I meant to add - inside the chroot, the directory /var  
exists, but /var/lock is not getting created.

-Jeff