Mock: Permission denied

[Seth Vidal]

On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Mike McLean wrote:

> On 03/31/2010 05:12 AM, Paul Howarth wrote:
>> The /var/lib/mock/dist-foo-build-18-13 directory may be a hangover from
>> when things were broken previously. It shouldn't be owned by user "torrent".
>>
>> I'd do an "ls -l /var/lib/mock" and move any directories owned by user
>> "torrent" somewhere else, then try again. If everything then works OK,
>> delete the moved directories (mock should re-create these directories as
>> needed).
>
> For a number of chroot operations (e.g. building), mock uses an
> unprivileged user it creates in the chroot. By default, the uid/gid for
> this unprivileged user is chosen based on the user running mock (it
> looks at env data from sudo/consolehelper to determine the real user).
>
> So, the builddir in the chroot is going to be owned by that unprivileged
> user. If you run mock as a /different/ user later and attempt to reuse
> the same buildroot, then you will get the errors like the ones you are
> seeing.
>
> Short answer: different mock users cannot share chroots.
>
> Easy fix: run mock clean to clear the old junk out of the buildroot.

or

mock --uniqueext=$USER

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