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apt package

Permission of extended_states wrong

Bug #67037 reported by ckeller
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
apt (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Michael Vogt

Bug Description

Binary package hint: apt

Hi,
The permission of /var/lib/apt/extended_states is 600
so the notification-daemon complains about wrong permissions.
Setting it to 644 only works till the next apt-get update

Christoph

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Jonh Wendell (wendell) wrote :

Hi! Thanks for your bug report.

What version of Ubuntu are you using?
I'm using edgy and the permissions of this file are correct (644).

Also, did you do any upgrade, or did you remember the first time this happened?

Changed in apt:
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

What is your umask setting as root? Just type (in a terminal):
$ sudo bash -c umask

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ckeller (christoph-keller) wrote :

umask is 0022 which should be fine.

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ckeller (christoph-keller) wrote :

ok found it.
my user umask is 0666 so when I make a sudo -s and run aptitude update
the permissions get messed up. Think this shouldn´t happen.

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Jonh Wendell (wendell) wrote :

Hummm.

Can you try the same with apt-get instead of aptitude and tell us what happens?

I guess we have to change the description of this bug and (depending of your response) change the software affected by this unwanted behavior.

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ckeller (christoph-keller) wrote :

apt-get changes the permission after a new packages is installed.
aptitude changes it when you run "install" even when no new package is installed.

Michael Vogt (mvo)
Changed in apt:
importance: Undecided → Medium
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Pierre-yves Strub (pierre-yves-strub) wrote :

Here is the patch. (package: apt)

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sardion (ubuntu-sardion) wrote :

I confirm this bug in Feisty. The patch given seems to fix it.

Changed in apt:
status: Needs Info → Confirmed
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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

Thanks for your bugreport.

This should be fixed with the latest version of apt in feisty, please reopen if you still see this problem.

Cheers,
 Michael

Changed in apt:
assignee: nobody → mvo
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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