Should not create config files that belong root in the users home dir

[fujinama]

Binary package hint: update-manager

Start update process and it fails.

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Mar 24 14:39:55 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/update-manager
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
Package: update-manager 1:0.59.6
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python2.5 /usr/bin/update-manager
ProcCwd: /home/crabs
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/update-manager']
SourcePackage: update-manager
Traceback:
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/UpdateManager/Core/MetaRelease.py", line 171, in download
     f=open(self.METARELEASE_FILE,"w+")
 IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/home/crabs/.update-manager/meta-release'
Uname: Linux laptop 2.6.20-12-generic #2 SMP Wed Mar 21 20:55:46 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor)]

Problem: sudo conservse the home dir of the user. as a result update-manager writes the meta-release information file as root in the users home dir.

1. rm -rf .update-manager
2. sudo update-manager
3. update-manager => bang

[Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor)]

Fixed in my local branch. Waiting for mvo to merge and upload.

@fujinama:
Delete the corresponding file as root and all should be fine: sudo rm -rf ~/.update-manager

Cheers,

Sebastian

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

@Sebastian:
I can't reproduce the error using the three steps you describe here:
1. rm -rf .update-manager
2. sudo update-manager
3. update-manager => bang

It write the information to /var/lib/update-manager/meta-release in this case on feisty for me.

Thanks,
 Michael

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

This problem is fixed in my local tree and the fix will be part of the next upload.

Cheers,
 Michael