Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye. Canonicalization of /var/log/journal.
On Wed 29 Sep 2021 at 16:46:14 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 07:05:37AM -0700, peter@easthope.ca wrote:
> > From: Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org>
> > Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 13:41:05 -0400
> > > What does it look like?
> > >
> > > ls -ld / /var /var/log /var/log/journal
> >
> > root@joule:/# ls -ld / /var /var/log
> > drwxr-xr-x 18 peter peter 4096 Sep 27 18:00 /
> > drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Nov 3 2020 /var
> > drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Sep 29 06:39 /var/log
>
> The ownership of the / directory is wrong. It should be root:root,
> not peter:peter.
>
> chown root:root /
>
> Everything else looks OK at the moment.
Similar to https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2021/07/msg00907.html
but even worse (there, it was only group ownership that was wrong).
It does appear that there's a subset of people who immediately
recognise this warning message as meaning "wrong ownership",
Greg (possibly), Kushal and of course Poettering:
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/11282
Would it be sensible for the message to actually mention ownership,
or can it apply to very different circumstances (beyond permissions,
that is)? I've failed to find any other cause, but see a lot of
people messing up their ownership.
Is this being done by people, say, untarring archives as root, or
are there some buggy programs out there? One person claimed it
happened through formatting a partition with some gnome program.
Is that likely?
Cheers,
David.
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