[Fedora-packaging] Problems using mock on Fedora 15

Daniel Piddock dgp-bz at corefiling.co.uk
Wed Oct 19 12:29:05 UTC 2011


On 19/10/11 13:18, Brad Bell wrote:
> I rebooted the machine and still have the same problem
>
> [bradbell at brad-home ~]$ groups
> mock
> [bradbell at brad-home ~]$ mock --version
> ERROR: Must be member of 'mock' group to run mock! ([])
> ... snip ...

I'm guessing bradbell has mock assigned as their default group as groups
is only returning the one result?

"bradbell" must be a member of "mock" in /etc/group for mock to work.
Try running "getent group mock" instead. You want it to return something
like "mock:x:448:bradbell"

HTH

Dan


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