Bug#862866: upgrade-reports: Error message after installation/Upgrade (Synaptic)
My apologies. I literally "hate" when I have to respond to myself as
fast as I send an email. An important detail I left off is that this
occurs for me while using apt-get.
And typo correction attached below where "directly" should have been
"directory". *oops!* :)
On 5/18/17, Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/17/17, Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 11:36:50PM +0300, Geo Pe wrote:
>>> Package: upgrade-reports
>>> Severity: normal
>>>
>>> Dear Maintainer,
>>>
>>> *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where
>>> appropriate
>>> ***
>>>
>>> * What led up to the situation?
>>> I upgraded from stable to testing. Try to install/upgrade various
>>> packages
>>>
>>> * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
>>> ineffective)?
>>> Tried to install netbeans. The problem is repeaded with other packages.
>>> * What was the outcome of this action?
>>> Netbeans was installed but i got the following message after
>>> installation:
>>>
>>> "W: Download is performed unsandboxed as root as file
>>> '/var/cache/apt/archives/partial/libminizip1_1.1-8+b1_amd64.deb'
>>> couldn't
>>> be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied)"
>>>
>>> * What outcome did you expect instead?
>>> Message for successfull installation.
>>
>> Hello Geo Pe,
>> This is not an error but a warning (W: mean warning).
>> You should check the permission of
>> /var/cache/apt/archives/partial/
>>
>> Cheers,
>> --
>> Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
>>
>> Imagine a large red swirl here.
>
>
> I've received that warning in the past. There obviously could be
> multiple causes for seeing it. In my case and purely discovered by
> accident, the warning occurred because I had symlinked to
> '/var/cache/apt/archives which was on an external hard drive.
>
> No matter where the target '/var/cache/apt/archives/ was placed in a
> data'esque hierarchy on that external hard drive, I still received
> that error. Permissions *appeared* to be correct, but that also didn't
> seem to make a difference.
>
> As a matter of record as long as the topic is here, that symlinking
> also caused my debootstrap chroot user "root" to have an identity
> crisis where it kept yelling, "I Have No Name!"
>
> As soon as I removed the symlink to '/var/cache/apt/archives/ and
> moved files back in the primary hierarchy, debootstrap's chroot user
> root found itself again as "root". If I'm remembering correctly, that
> instance was ultimately traced back to my missing a similar
> permissions denied warning early on in debootstrap. That warning
> disappeared immediately upon removal of the package archives [directory]
> symlink.
>
> Hope this some day helps somehow..
>
> Cindy :)
>
> --
> Cindy-Sue Causey
> Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA
>
> * runs with duct tape *
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