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Subject: fixed Bug#473416: policyd-weight: The following packages will be upgraded: Date: Monday 31 March 2008 10:40 From: Andreas Fleckl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Jan Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Andreas Fleckl wrote: > Thank you, > > upgrade done successful > > chgrp root /tmp/.policyd-weight/ > fixed it > > .. > oib > > Jan Wagner wrote: >> Hi Andreas, >> >> On Sunday 30 March 2008 20:44, you wrote: >>> current status >>> >>> ls -la /tmp/.policyd-weight/ >>> total 8.0K >>> drwxr-xr-x 2 root www-data 4.0K 2008-03-29 22:03 . >>> drwxrwxrwt 6 root root 4.0K 2008-03-30 20:14 .. >> >> the problem is, that /tmp/.policyd-weight/ is owned by gid www-data. This >> should NEWER happen. Anything is wrong on your system. The security fix >> implements checks to ensure the directory is owned by "polw" (or root at >> startup) and gid should be "root". >> >>> there is no way to purge, reinstall or upgrade >>> >>> apt-get remove --purge policyd-weight >>> Reading package lists... Done >>> Building dependency tree... Done >>> The following packages will be REMOVED: >>> policyd-weight* >>> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 24 not upgraded. >>> 1 not fully installed or removed. >>> Need to get 0B of archives. >>> After unpacking 201kB disk space will be freed. >>> Do you want to continue [Y/n]? >>> (Reading database ... 55874 files and directories currently installed.) >>> Removing policyd-weight ... >>> Stopping policyd-weight: fatal: main: init:: /tmp/.policyd-weight is >>> owned by >>> UI >>> D 0, GID 33. Exiting! at /usr/sbin/policyd-weight line 653. >>> invoke-rc.d: initscript policyd-weight, action "stop" failed. >>> dpkg: error processing policyd-weight (--purge): >>> subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 255 >>> Starting policyd-weight: fatal: main: init:: /tmp/.policyd-weight is >>> owned by >>> UI >>> D 0, GID 33. Exiting! at /usr/sbin/policyd-weight line 653. >>> invoke-rc.d: initscript policyd-weight, action "start" failed. >>> dpkg: error while cleaning up: >>> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 255 >>> Errors were encountered while processing: >>> policyd-weight >>> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) >> >> "chgrp root /tmp/.policyd-weight/" should fix the problem for you, but >> it's not a general problem from my point of view. >> >> With kind regards, Jan. ------------------------------------------------------- -- Never write mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, you have been warned! -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GIT d-- s+: a- C+++ UL++++ P+ L+++ E- W+++ N+++ o++ K++ w--- O M V- PS PE Y++ PGP++ t-- 5 X R tv- b+ DI- D++ G++ e++ h-- r+++ y+++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
