C�dric Bosdonnat found that the problem is caused by a left over gpg-agent process in the chroot after yum/dnf runs. I cannot reproduce this myself on Fedora 22 host, but that certainly doesn't mean it doesn't happen on SUSE host, and I would look at a patch if one were to be posted upstream. In the meantime, this is a plausible (untested) workaround. Replace '--install mc' with: --run-command ' dnf -y install mc pkill gpg-agent '