Bug 768305

Summary:	zypper fails when running in nis home dir
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 12.1	Reporter:	Björn Geuken <bgeuken>
Component:	YaST2	Assignee:	Michael Schröder <mls>
Status:	VERIFIED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Description Björn Geuken 2012-06-22 07:31:01 UTC

This used to work in the past and it took me a while to figure out why it fails.

bgeuken@g196:~> sudo zypper in pidgin
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Resolving package dependencies...

The following NEW packages are going to be installed:
  nautilus-sendto-plugin-pidgin pidgin pidgin-evolution 

3 new packages to install.
Overall download size: 1.8 MiB. After the operation, additional 4.0 MiB will be 
used.
Continue? [y/n/?] (y): y
Installing: pidgin-2.10.1-8.9.1 [error]
Installation of pidgin-2.10.1-8.9.1 failed:
(with --nodeps --force) Error: Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed: error: Unable to open current directory: Permission denied


Abort, retry, ignore? [a/r/i] (a): r
Installing: pidgin-2.10.1-8.9.1 [error]
Installation of pidgin-2.10.1-8.9.1 failed:
(with --nodeps --force) Error: Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed: error: Unable to open current directory: Permission denied


Abort, retry, ignore? [a/r/i] (a): a
Problem occured during or after installation or removal of packages:
Installation aborted by user

Please see the above error message for a hint.
bgeuken@g196:~> cd /
bgeuken@g196:/> sudo zypper in pidgin
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
Resolving package dependencies...

The following NEW packages are going to be installed:
  nautilus-sendto-plugin-pidgin pidgin pidgin-evolution 

3 new packages to install.
Overall download size: 1.8 MiB. After the operation, additional 4.0 MiB will be 
used.
Continue? [y/n/?] (y): y
Installing: pidgin-2.10.1-8.9.1 [81%]

Comment 1 Michael Andres 2012-06-25 09:12:42 UTC

Seems to be rpm which wants to open current directory.

Comment 2 Michael Schröder 2012-06-25 09:24:27 UTC

Dup.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 728856 ***