Re: Running GNORPM as root

[Dax Kelson <dax gurulabs com>]

Elliot Lee said once upon a time (Fri, 3 Sep 1999):

> On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Rebecca Ore wrote:
> 
> > I can run gnorpm as user rebecca without any problems, except that I can't
> > install or remove packges.  However, I get this when I try to query packages as
> > root, or do anything else.
> > 
> > [root@ogoense gnorpm-0.9]# gnorpm
> > Broken pipe
> > [root@ogoense gnorpm-0.9]# 
> > 
> > I don't have a core file.
> 
> Can you run 'strace -f -o gnorpm.log gnorpm' as root, and send the
> gnorpm.log file? Send it to gnorpm-maint@gnome.org and me
> (sopwith@redhat.com), and I can always pass it on to anyone else who is
> interested in debugging the problem.

Rebecca, you can find strace here:

ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/linux/redhat/redhat-6.0/i386/RedHat/RPMS/strace-3.1-17.i386.rpm 

Install that RPM with rpm -Uvh filename.  And then do what Elliot
suggests.

Dax Kelson
Guru Labs