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Issue metadata

Status:	Fixed
Owner:	jclinton@chromium.org
Closed:	Dec 2017
Cc:	la...@chromium.org sjg@chromium.org shapiroc@chromium.org
Components:	OS>Systems
EstimatedDays:	----
NextAction:	----
OS:	Chrome
Pri:	3
Type:	Bug

cros_config error running mosys

Project Member Reported by la...@chromium.org, Nov 27 2017

Issue description

appearing in powerd.LATEST:
[1127/131340:ERROR:cros_config.cc(301)] Could not run command mosys -k platform id

# sudo -u power mosys -k platform id
Cannot open lockfile //run/lock/firmware_utility_lock: Permission denied

Comment 1 by jclinton@chromium.org, Dec 18 2017

Cc: sjg@chromium.org la...@chromium.org shapiroc@chromium.org
Components: -OS OS>Systems

powerd runs as non-root and so cannot hope to obtain this lock. IMO, we should use mosys "-f" option to ignore lock acquisitions since mosys in this mode isn't going to be reading from flashrom anyway (that's why the lock is there).

Comment 2 by jclinton@chromium.org, Dec 19 2017

Status: Fixed (was: Assigned)

This code path was removed on Dec 5th in commit 39d403b2e233129859c39cd198182addd7f43e1c.

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