Permission denied during rpm installation

Ed Kim ed.kim at rhatbox.com
Thu Jul 27 21:40:26 UTC 2006


Patrick Doyle wrote:
> I thought about that after I sent my email... Gee, probably won't help
> you at all, but the button had been pressed and the email sent...
> 
> Anyway,
> Once before I have seen a file that root couldn't delete.  It was on a
> badly hosed disk that had suffered a fatal data destroying fsck.  I
> was about to contact the maintainers of ext3 and say to them "Do you
> want to see a disk image on which root cannot delete a file?", when I
> thought to check the extended attributes (via "lsattr") -- sure
> enough, the file system had been corrupted enough that some attribute
> had been set that inhibited even root from removing the file (perhaps
> it was flagged as "immutable" -- I don't recall now).
> 
> The other thought that comes to mind is SELinux, about which I know
> absolutely nothing.
> 
> --wpd
> 
Are there any relevant messages in /var/log/messages ?
if it is selinux, you can try the command 'setenforce 0' to temporarily 
disable it and rerun the rpm command.

-- 
Ed Kim, RHCE
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