mock 0.9 backport to F7/F8 -- Feb 1

Michael E Brown Michael_E_Brown at dell.com
Thu Mar 13 01:48:40 UTC 2008


On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 08:26:15PM +0200, Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
> 
> 
> >>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
> >  
> 
> You are right, reversing the order of /usr/bin and /usr/sbin fixes the 
> above but I get another strange problem now:
> - if I run mock directly, I get the prompt back immediatly
> - if I use strace mock , it works OK.
> 
> Any idea what's the issue here?

Absolutely no idea. Is this still happening?
--
Michael




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