Subject: Re: [vserver] yum build (fedora-10) fails on Gentoo host
From: Christian Affolter <c.affolter@stepping-stone.ch>
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:02:00 +0100

Hi Herbert

>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I'm trying to build a fedora-10 guest on a Gentoo host using the yum
>> method (-m yum):
>>
>> vserver fedora-01 build \
>>   --context 10997 \
>>   --hostname fedora-01.example.com \
>>   --interface 9970=eth0:192.168.1.55/24 \
>>   -m yum -- \
>>     -d f10
>>
>> This fails with the following error message:
>> error: can't create transaction lock on /vservers/example.com/fedora-01
> 
>> You are using a version of yum which is insecure and broken in chroot
>> related operations; either apply the patches shipped in the 'contrib/'
>> directory of util-vserver, or ask the author of yum to apply them
>> (preferred).
> 
> did you try with a patched yum as suggested?

Yes, I tried with and without the patch. I'm sorry I forgot to mention that.


> 
> TIA,
> Herbert
> 
>> In the meantime, 'vyum' will continue with dirty hacks which might not
>> work when the vserver is running and local DOS attacks are possible.
>>
>> Execution will continue in 5 seconds...
>>
>> [...]
>> CRITICAL:yum.cli:Config Error: Error accessing file for config
>> file:///etc/vservers/fedora-01/apps/pkgmgmt/base/yum/etc/yum-hack.conf
>>
>>
>> However I'm able to output the content of the config file (cat
>> "$YUMETCDIR/${YUM_CONF:-$conf}") before the rpmFake.exec command within
>> the /usr/lib/util-vserver/vyum-worker script. Therefore the file seems
>> to exist.
>>
>> Configuration:
>> Kernel:       2.6.31-vs2.3.0.36.19-gentoo
>> util-vserver: 0.30.216_pre2864
>> python:       2.6.4
>> bash:         4.0_p35
>> yum:          3.2.8-r1
>> rpm:          4.4.6-r6
>>
>>
>> Thanks for any help!