922 2011-03-22 00:49:21 +0000 "rpm -qa" can not run for non-root user: Permission denied 2018-01-26 12:36:37 +0000 1 1 7 Build System, Metadata & Runtime OE-Core core unspecified x86 Multiple RESOLVED WORKSFORME Low normal Future 1 dexuan.cui alex.kanavin jessica.zhang jiajun.xu meta.mr.watcher meta.watcher mravindr n3npq randy.macleod richard.purdie sgw xudong.hao --- --- No (bug/feature does not impact docs) oldest_to_newest 12900 0 dexuan.cui 2011-03-22 00:49:21 +0000 The log is $ rpm -qa error: db_init:db3.c:994: dbenv->open(13): Permission denied error: cannot open Packages(0) index: Permission denied(13) DB: Berkeley DB 5.1.19: (August 27, 2010) error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm BTW: root can run the command successfully. 12915 1 dexuan.cui 2011-03-22 22:15:54 +0000 "opkg-cl list-installed" has the same issue for a non-root user: $ opkg-cl list-installed Collected errors: * opkg_conf_load: Could not create lock file /var/lib/opkg/lock: Permission denied. 12956 2 richard.purdie 2011-03-24 05:36:48 +0000 This is to be expected, you need to be root to run package management operations. 12967 3 jessica.zhang 2011-03-24 09:28:45 +0000 Actually this is a bug.. but it's low. As Richard indicates you need root to use the package management system. But traditionally you can query the packages available on the system as non-root. - Mark 21187 4 mark.hatle 2012-05-08 15:35:58 +0000 Most of the estimate time is required for testing the work, the change is likely fairly simple. 32603 5 n3npq 2013-04-24 16:58:04 +0000 Running "rpm -qa" tries to create shared locks in /var/lib/rpm. So a scheme with g+w permission needs to be devised. However "rpm -qa" skips the locking with some minor risk of non-root segfaulting iof/when another rpm install (not query) process is running. However I believe that the permissions on /var/lib/rpm/Packages are preventing the open here, likely because of umask settings. 56651 6 sjolley.yp.pm 2015-11-19 16:04:01 +0000 This was REOPENED 56658 7 mark.hatle 2015-11-19 16:08:22 +0000 I don't see that this was reopened. We never solved the issue as it was low priority. 57578 8 mravindr 2016-01-06 13:38:18 +0000 I would like to reassign to myself if this is still a issue. 79219 9 ross.burton 2018-01-25 15:56:36 +0000 Alex, next time you've an image with rpm on, can you verify this still happens with rpm v4? 79233 10 alex.kanavin 2018-01-26 12:36:37 +0000 Just tried on core-image-sato as a 'nobody' user - rpm -qa works fine.