On Tue, 8 Nov 2016 05:55:02 -0800 Noah Meyerhans <no...@debian.org> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 30, 2016 at 10:12:13AM +0000, Askar Safin wrote: >> I downloaded Debian Live from this link: >> http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current-live/amd64/iso-hybrid/debian-live-8.5.0-amd64-kde-desktop.iso >> I booted into this KDE live system, opened Konsole terminal >> emulator, typed "ping debian.org" (as non-root) into it and saw: >> "ping: icmp open socket: Operation not permitted". >> "sudo ping debian.org" works. > > ping uses Linux capabilities(7) to work as a non-suid binary. What seems > to be happening is that the initial base installation performed by > debootstrap is done on a filesystem that supports capabilities, but then > the capabilities are lost when the files are copied to the CD image > filesystem. I'm not sure if that's because the target filesystem doesn't > support capabilities or that the process of copying fails to preserve > them. > > I'm re-assigning this to the cdimage.debian.org team so they can > investigate.
Just tested ping with "debian-live-9.1.0-amd64-kde-desktop.iso" and with "debian-live-9.1.0-amd64-cinnamon-desktop.iso". Ping performs correctly on both systems. @Asker: mind trying it again and close the bug it works for you? Thx. Regards, - Darsha
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