Bug#436140: cdrom: Most of the system's files have a future timestamp causing at least update/config problems.
Package: cdrom
Severity: grave
I cannot determine the exact extend of the problem, but a "ls -la" in "/" reveals this:
drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 2008-01-02 21:14 .
drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 2008-01-02 21:14 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-01-02 21:13 bin
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2007-06-10 13:50 boot
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 2008-01-02 19:57 cdrom -> media/cdrom
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4340 2007-08-05 17:49 dev
drwxr-xr-x 108 root root 4096 2007-08-05 18:35 etc
drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 2007-06-10 16:00 hdb
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2007-06-10 17:01 home
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-01-02 19:58 initrd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 2008-01-02 20:00 initrd.img ->
boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-4-486
drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 2008-01-02 21:12 lib
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 2008-01-02 19:57 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2007-07-17 00:55 media
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-10-28 16:06 mnt
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-01-02 19:58 opt
dr-xr-xr-x 111 root root 0 2007-08-05 17:48 proc
-rw------- 1 root root 1024 2008-01-02 21:14 .rnd
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 2007-06-10 16:30 root
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-01-02 21:43 sbin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-03-07 23:56 selinux
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-01-02 19:58 srv
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 0 2007-08-05 17:48 sys
drwxrwxrwt 12 root root 4096 2007-08-05 18:50 tmp
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 2008-01-02 21:08 usr
drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 2008-01-02 21:41 var
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 2008-01-02 20:00 vmlinuz ->
boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-4-486
As you can see, for what reason ever, this installation produced future timestamps on vital directories causing update mechanisms to fail and to
complain *all the time*.
Installation history:
- CD-ROM debian-40r0-i586-netinst
- Updates taken as indicated by notifier icon
The first symptom was the notorious "ttf-opensymbol" update failure, probably caused by various font directories tagged with future
timestamps (/usr/share/fonts, /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/, ...) but this bug's effects are obviously not restricted to these places.
Since the update infrastructure fails, security fixes can no longer be applied. This however makes the system unusable.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-486
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
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