On Monday 29 October 2007 16:03, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > Argh!! > > On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 03:35:13PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: > > On Monday 29 October 2007 14:53, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 02:19:04PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: > > > > Reading changelogs... Done > > > > Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-kloro" is owned by uid 1000 instead > > > > of uid > > > > 0. Link points to "/var/tmp/kdecache-rootcohchy" > > > > Error: "/tmp/kde-kloro" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0. > > > > Link points to "/tmp/kde-root" > > > > Error: "/tmp/ksocket-kloroyr3bC5" is owned by uid 1000 instead > > > > of > > > > uid 0. Link points to "/tmp/ksocket-root" > > > > Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-kloro" is owned by uid 1000 instead > > > > of uid > > > > 0. Link points to "/var/tmp/kdecache-rootcohchy" > > > > apt-listchanges: Do you want to continue? [Y/n]? > > > > > > what are the perms of /var itself and its subdirs? mine looks like > > ^^^^^ > > /var not /tmp > > > > anything under /var/tmp should be owned by root (UID 0), and not you > > ^^^^^^^^^ > > /var/tmp not /tmp > > > did a chown -R on var/tmp. then started ff and got some error messages. > > session as follows: > > no. you chown'ed /tmp which is not /var/tmp. And, *look* at /var > *first* to see if it matches what I posted. > > don't panic though, there is (or should not be) anything persistent in > /tmp, so it will fix itself up with a reboot. > > meanwhile look at > > /var permissions for potential problems. In particular, /var/tmp > should have the sticky bit set. Maybe you could post up the output of > > ls -ld /var > > and > > ls -l /var > > thanks > > A
Andy, thanks for your patience. can it be old age? ;o) at any rate: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/$ ls -ld /var drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 360 2005-12-19 03:45 /var/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/$ ls -l /var total 11 drwxr-xr-x 2 kloro root 768 2007-08-29 06:38 backups/ drwxr-xr-x 19 kloro root 528 2007-02-16 11:38 cache/ drwxr-xr-x 3 kloro root 3800 2007-01-12 14:49 games/ drwxr-xr-x 61 kloro root 1576 2007-09-25 10:49 lib/ drwxrwsr-x 2 kloro staff 48 2004-12-15 14:55 local/ drwxrwxrwt 4 kloro root 96 2007-10-30 10:47 lock/ drwxr-xr-x 19 kloro root 2960 2007-10-30 10:47 log/ drwxrwsr-x 2 kloro mail 144 2007-10-30 12:08 mail/ drwxr-xr-x 2 kloro root 48 2005-12-19 02:57 opt/ drwxr-xr-x 18 kloro root 1080 2007-10-30 10:48 run/ drwxr-xr-x 12 kloro root 328 2007-05-26 14:21 spool/ drwxrwxrwt 8 root root 264 2007-10-30 11:02 tmp/ drwxr-xr-x 19 kloro root 1696 2007-07-26 15:34 www/ after doing 'sudo chown -R root /var/tmp', i get: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/$ ls -l /var/tmp total 0 drwx------ 8 root kloro 256 2007-10-29 17:53 kdecache-kloro/ drwx------ 3 kloro kloro 128 2007-10-30 11:04 kdecache-kloro7k3iRa/ drwx------ 5 root root 176 2006-01-29 16:10 kdecache-root/ drwx------ 4 root root 152 2007-10-02 17:11 kdecache-rootcohchy/ drwx------ 6 root root 200 2007-02-03 13:52 kdecache-rootKvAh16/ drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 48 2005-12-19 02:58 vi.recover/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/$ but firefox still won't save stuff unless i start it with 'sudo'. aren't the permissions in '/var/tmp' a little weird? thanks, tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
