[SOLVED] urpmf and urpmq only work as root

[Khym_Chanur]

When I try to use urpmf or urpmq from as a non-root user I get no results, without any useful error messages (for example, "urpmq tk" simply tells me "No package named tk"); doing this on Mandriva worked just fine.

Trying "urpmq --debug tk" gets me:

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getting lock on urpmi
parsing: /etc/urpmi/mediacfg.d/Devel-3-i586
parsing: /etc/urpmi/mediacfg.d/Official-3-i586
No package named tk
unlocking urpmi database
EXITING (pid=11736)

When run as root, I instead get:

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getting lock on urpmi
parsing: /etc/urpmi/mediacfg.d/Devel-3-i586
parsing: /etc/urpmi/mediacfg.d/Official-3-i586
examining synthesis file [/var/lib/urpmi/Core Release (distrib5)/synthesis.hdlist.cz]
(more "examining synthesis file" lines removed)
tk
EXITING (pid=11802)

Trying to make them setuid doesn't work (probably because they're scripts).

Thanks.

[doktor5000]

Works here as normal user, no matter if urpmq or urpmf. Could you try

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urpmq -y tk

and

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urpmf -f -m --name tk


Which security level did you set during installation, and was this an upgrade or a clean installation?

[Khym_Chanur]

Turns out the problem was that /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg wasn't world-readable. A simple "chmod" fixed the problem. I'm going to file a bug report, since there should be a complaint if they can't read the config file.