Bug#926450: spurious error "gzip: stdout: Permission denied"

2019-08-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 04:06:42PM -0400, David Sanders wrote: >This bug appears to be caused by the installed apparmor profile for man-db >in buster. If you are the root user and/or /usr/bin/man has been >configured as setuid and there are cat? directories in /var/cache/man, >then

Bug#926450: spurious error "gzip: stdout: Permission denied"

2019-08-20 Thread David Sanders
This bug appears to be caused by the installed apparmor profile for man-db in buster. If you are the root user and/or /usr/bin/man has been configured as setuid and there are cat? directories in /var/cache/man, then man will try to write a cat page to those directories but will be prevented by

Bug#926450: spurious error "gzip: stdout: Permission denied"

2019-04-05 Thread user_
Package: man-db Version: 2.8.5-2 Severity: normal Dear maintainer, man prints "gzip: stdout: Permission denied" if called as root (su -l) in xterm or xfce4-terminal. The manpage is displayed correctly, the message seems harmless. This does not happen if man is run as a normal user (1000), or in