Package: synaptic Version: 0.83+nmu1 Severity: normal I am getting this warning in synaptic.
W: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file '/root/.synaptic/tmp//tmp_sh' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied) I get the warning when I do a 'Mark All Upgrades'. I can just close the warning window and continue with the upgrades. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages synaptic depends on: ii hicolor-icon-theme 0.15-1 ii libapt-inst2.0 1.4~beta1 ii libapt-pkg5.0 1.4~beta1 ii libatk1.0-0 2.22.0-1 ii libc6 2.24-7 ii libcairo-gobject2 1.14.6-1.1 ii libcairo2 1.14.6-1.1 ii libept1.5.0 1.1+nmu3+b1 ii libgcc1 1:6.2.1-5 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.36.0-1 ii libglib2.0-0 2.50.2-2 ii libgnutls30 3.5.6-7 ii libgtk-3-0 3.22.4-1 ii libpango-1.0-0 1.40.3-3 ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.40.3-3 ii libpcre2-8-0 10.22-2 ii libstdc++6 6.2.1-5 ii libvte-2.91-0 0.46.1-1 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.3-1 ii libxapian30 1.4.1-1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b3 Versions of packages synaptic recommends: ii gksu 2.0.2-9 ii libgtk2-perl 2:1.2499-1 ii policykit-1 0.105-17 ii rarian-compat 0.8.1-6 ii xdg-utils 1.1.1-1 Versions of packages synaptic suggests: ii apt-xapian-index 0.49 pn deborphan <none> pn dwww <none> ii menu 2.1.47 ii software-properties-gtk 0.96.20.2-1 ii tasksel 3.37 -- no debconf information