>From my experience gnome-disks automatically chowns / to the executing user >when creating a filesystem. But I don't think Peter did that. I'd rather say it's been caused by some installation script, those are usually buggy when it comes to file ownership. Peter, did you install anything via a .run or .sh file?
Nils On Wed, 29 Sep 2021 22:35:35 -0500 David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote: > On Wed 29 Sep 2021 at 16:46:14 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 07:05:37AM -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > > > From: Greg Wooledge <g...@wooledge.org> > > > Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 13:41:05 -0400 > > > > What does it look like? > > > > > > > > ls -ld / /var /var/log /var/log/journal > > > > > > root@joule:/# ls -ld / /var /var/log > > > drwxr-xr-x 18 peter peter 4096 Sep 27 18:00 / > > > drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Nov 3 2020 /var > > > drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Sep 29 06:39 /var/log > > > > The ownership of the / directory is wrong. It should be root:root, > > not peter:peter. > > > > chown root:root / > > > > Everything else looks OK at the moment. > > Similar to https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2021/07/msg00907.html > but even worse (there, it was only group ownership that was wrong). > It does appear that there's a subset of people who immediately > recognise this warning message as meaning "wrong ownership", > Greg (possibly), Kushal and of course Poettering: > > https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/11282 > > Would it be sensible for the message to actually mention ownership, > or can it apply to very different circumstances (beyond permissions, > that is)? I've failed to find any other cause, but see a lot of > people messing up their ownership. > > Is this being done by people, say, untarring archives as root, or > are there some buggy programs out there? One person claimed it > happened through formatting a partition with some gnome program. > Is that likely? > > Cheers, > David. > -- Nils <tuxi...@posteo.de>
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