Mock Error

Stephen John Smoogen smooge at gmail.com
Fri Oct 15 17:37:08 UTC 2010


On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 11:33, Narendra Sisodiya
<narendra at narendrasisodiya.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Narendra Sisodiya
> <narendra at narendrasisodiya.com> wrote:
>>
>> creating 32 bit iso file on 64 bit machine using pungi and mock. but
>> following error I am getting.
>>
>>
>> [root at narendra mock]# mock -r fedora-13-i386 --clean
>> INFO: mock.py version 1.1.5 starting...
>> State Changed: init plugins
>> INFO: selinux enabled
>> State Changed: start
>> State Changed: lock buildroot
>> State Changed: clean
>> [root at narendra mock]# mock -r fedora-13-i386 --init
>> INFO: mock.py version 1.1.5 starting...
>> State Changed: init plugins
>> INFO: selinux enabled
>> State Changed: start
>> State Changed: lock buildroot
>> State Changed: clean
>> State Changed: init
>> State Changed: lock buildroot
>> Mock Version: 1.1.5
>> INFO: Mock Version: 1.1.5
>> INFO: enabled root cache
>> State Changed: unpacking root cache
>> INFO: enabled yum cache
>> State Changed: cleaning yum metadata
>> INFO: enabled ccache
>> State Changed: running yum
>> ERROR: Command failed. See logs for output.
>>  # ['/usr/sbin/groupadd', '-g', '478', 'mockbuild']
>> [root at narendra mock]#
>>

Ok I ran into this problem. The issue is that you can not run mock as
the root user. Add the user who is going to run mock into the group
user.


groupadd -a -G mock username

and then run as that user and you should avoid both problems.

>
> After this, I have applied this commad
>
> # mock -r fedora-13-i386 --no-clean --install pungi
>
> INFO: mock.py version 1.1.5 starting...
> State Changed: init plugins
> INFO: selinux enabled
> State Changed: start
> State Changed: lock buildroot
>
> but it is not installing anything. it seems to be hang.
>
>
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