mock 0.9 backport to F7/F8 -- Feb 1

Manuel Wolfshant wolfy at nobugconsulting.ro
Thu Mar 6 18:26:15 UTC 2008


 

>> 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?






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