Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye. Canonicalization of /var/log/journal. APPEARS SOLVED.

[peter@easthope.ca]

    From: Nils <tuxifan@posteo.de>
    Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 17:16:30 +0000
> Are you sure you still need these journals? 

I don't know.

> ... my way to work around it would be to just delete those logs.

Did that and rebooted.  System behaviour unchanged.

APPARENT SOLUTION

root@joule:/home/peter# ls -ld / /var /etc /usr /var/lib /var/log
drwxr-xr-x  18 peter peter  4096 Sep 27 18:00 /
drwxr-xr-x 132 root  root  12288 Sep 29 09:34 /etc
drwxr-xr-x  14 root  root   4096 Nov 11  2020 /usr
drwxr-xr-x  11 root  root   4096 Nov  3  2020 /var
drwxr-xr-x  50 root  root   4096 Sep 27 19:28 /var/lib
drwxr-xr-x  10 root  root   4096 Sep 29 14:09 /var/log

root@joule:/home/peter# chown root:root /

Then the upgrade completes with no errors.

I can't explain why / was owned by me.  According to the above it 
happened in the release upgrade two days ago.

Apologies for the disturbance.

Regards,                                ... P.

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