On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 11:10:41AM +0100, VALETTE Eric RD-MAPS-REN wrote: > What can I say that I have not already said? I started by the netboot > iso for amd64 from last sunday 14/11 image. I chose the default > graphical installer. The target disk was already formatted but using a > 32 bit install and with a too small /usr and 32 bits binaries. I thus > started the partitioning by deleting first one by one the existing > partitions using only the partman interface and then recreated them one > by one using partman with different size, adding the LABEL and changing > the /tmp fs type from ext3 to ext2 > > I cannot insure the /tmp settings were wrong from beginning immediately > after the first reboot as I did not install anything beyond the strictly > basic installer packages and did not have any graphical packages at that > time and may have missed it. I also logged only as root and thus may > have missed the tmp permission problem. > > Then I did after that > 1) restore my apt source list > 2) a dpkg --set-selection from a the previously saved 32 bit instal > get-selection and an apt dselect-upgrade > 3) rebooted and verified that KDM was started but did not log in as > it was past midnight > > Again I cannot assure that /tmp setting were wrong at that time. > > What I'm sure of: > 1) at the end /tmp setting were wrong > 2) I never executed a *self cooked script* changing tmp settings
I have often messed up the permissions on /tmp myself by doing: cd /tmp dpkg-deb -x /some/package.deb Then a bit later I discover /tmp is all broken. One of these days I will remember to NEVER do that in /tmp but use a subdir. So it is easy as root to mess up /tmp using dpkg-deb, tar, and other tools. > I you looked at the path for tmp permission setting and the path looks > correct this is enough for me. BTW I have a question: do you set the > 1777 on the root of the real tmp FS and also on the "umounted" /tmp > directory? because tmp mounting first failed with my own generated > kernel because I forgot to enable ext2 (only ext3 was enabled), I had to > recompile it before being able to actually mount /tmp as an ext2 FS and > I do not remember with which kernel I did see the wrong permissions (aka > with /tmp mounted as an ext2 fs or the one available via the / > filsesystem if the mount is not yet performed or fails). > > I would not have opened the bug given all i did in addition to the other > install if I did not remember have already seen the same bug on another > totally different install (with a different installer version). -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101119153150.gz12...@caffeine.csclub.uwaterloo.ca
