Re: rpm database issue?

[Valery Reznic <valery_reznic yahoo com>]

May be your client's system has too strict SElinux
securituy policy ?

Or maybe despite his claim user was not logged as root
?

Valery
--- marks <marks adax com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have a user reporting the following error messages
> when running "rpm -i" 
> for 3 packages I provided.  I don't see these error
> messages on any of my 
> Red Hat or SuSE test systems.  The user has tried
> two different SuSE 
> systems.
> 
> error: cannot get shared lock on
> /var/lib/rpm/Packages
> error: cannot open Packages index using db3 -
> Operation not permitted (1)
> error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
> 
> He claims he is logged in as root during the "rpm
> -i".
> 
> Any insight is appreciated.
> 
> -- 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mark Sincerbox
> 
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