https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=819354 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=819354#c0 Summary: zypper fails to install package when pwd does not exist Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 12.3 Version: Final Platform: All OS/Version: openSUSE 12.3 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Basesystem AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: prusnak@opensuse.org QAContact: qa-bugs@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.32 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/27.0.1425.0 Safari/537.32 SUSE/27.0.1425.0 When I install packages using zypper, the installations fails when the current directory does not exists. Nor zypper neither rpm should touch the current directory, so this should not be a problem Relevant part of zypper output: (1/6) Installing: gsl-1.15-13.1.1 ...................................................................................................[error] Installation of gsl-1.15-13.1.1 failed: (with --nodeps --force) Error: Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed: error: Unable to open current directory: Permission denied Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. create directory, chdir into it and delete it 2. try to install any package using zypper 3. you'll see the error above -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.