Does anyone facing the following problem ?
When I use some yum subcommands, it puts /var in read-only mode!
Example:
X064# yum version
Warning: RPMDB altered outside of yum.
Installed: $releasever/ppc 79:dc12a6c9c7ca19fb5796affef57a19d9b6ec6fb9
Group-Installed: yum 7:55d66bf6e25f6717bd180900fdc4d184af87437e
version
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/yum", line 32, in <module>
yummain.user_main(sys.argv[1:], exit_code=True)
File "/opt/freeware/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 288, in user_main
errcode = main(args)
File "/opt/freeware/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 156, in main
if unlock(): return 200
File "/opt/freeware/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 74, in unlock
base.doUnlock()
File "/opt/freeware/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 1838, in doUnlock
self._unlock(lockfile)
File "/opt/freeware/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 1859, in _unlock
misc.unlink_f(filename)
File "/opt/freeware/lib/python2.7/site-packages/yum/misc.py", line 939, in unlink_f
os.unlink(filename)
OSError: [Errno 30] The file system has read permission only.: '/var/run/yum.pid'
the same behaviour when running for example:
yum clean all or yum history
NB: of course with /var having read only permission, unable to create the /var/run/yum.pid, etc...
version installed:
Name : yum-metadata-parser
Version : 1.1.4
Release : 2
Name : yum
Version : 3.4.3
Release : 7
Name : yum-utils
Version : 1.1.31
Release : 2
Thanks in advance for your help
Michel
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