This also happen on Yakkety with synaptic, but only once after opening a session (gnome-shell 64 bits); After that first 'upgrade' that ends with this warning, the next upgrades, inside the opened session, do not warns. This has no sad effects on upgrading, so it could be silenced.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to apt in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1522675 Title: /root/.synaptic/ not created due to locking status Status in apt package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in synaptic package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in synaptic package in Debian: New Bug description: Recently we got new versions for synaptic 0.82+build1 & apt 1.1.3, but now get that error when installing/upgrading some packages: Setting up libc6-dbg:amd64 (2.21-0ubuntu5) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.21-0ubuntu5) ... W: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file '/root/.synaptic/tmp//tmp_cl' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied) From nautilus, i'm seeing a /root/ folder locked (x on its icon) and the folder is empty (no /.synaptic/ sub-folder or file), so the above error. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04 Package: synaptic 0.82+build1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.3.0-1.10-generic 4.3.0 Uname: Linux 4.3.0-1-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 2.19.2-0ubuntu8 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: GNOME Date: Fri Dec 4 05:23:25 2015 SourcePackage: synaptic UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1522675/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
