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Re: Bullseye - who and users return nothing



On Ma, 25 ian 22, 04:03:17, Gareth Evans wrote:
> 
> Googling "Detected unsafe path transition during canonicalization" led me to 
> 
> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=260924
> 
> where a user sees this error because / is owned by the user rather than root.
> 
> Lo and behold
> 
> $ stat /
> 
> shows this is what has somehow happened.
> 
> $ sudo chown root:root /
> 
> solves the disappearing /var/run/utmp problem (and fixes who/users) 
> 
> There is nothing in bash history to suggest I did this - can/should it happen any other way?

Occam's Razor would suggest this was done when setting up your / on ZFS.


Kind regards,
Andrei
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