couldn't be accessed by user _apt
- Subject: couldn't be accessed by user _apt
- From: mpitt@debian.org (Martin Pitt)
- Date: Mon, 2 May 2016 06:07:21 -0500
- Message-id: <[🔎] 20160502110721.GA2777@piware.de>
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Hello Ashkan,
Ashkan Taslimi [2016-04-26 11:46 +0200]:
> How can I fix this the following problem:
>
> W: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file
> '/tmp/adt-run.ZlyfuQ/deps/afl_2.10b-1_amd64.deb' couldn't be accessed by
> user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied)
Your remote host apparently runs a recent Debian/Ubuntu, but somehow
deleted the _apt system user that apt created. It's just a warning, it
should not break anything, does it? If so, it should get recreated
with "dpkg-reconfigure apt".
Martin
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