Bugzilla – Bug 768305
zypper fails when running in nis home dir
Last modified: 2012-06-25 09:24:27 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%]
Seems to be rpm which wants to open current directory.
Dup. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 728856 ***