mintupdate / apt requires access to my home directory

[John Edwards]

__Problem__

When running mintupdate I encounter the following error:

Unable to change to /home/jedwards/ - chdir (13: Permission denied)

My home directory is NFS mounted and secured with kerberos. The root user has no access to my home directory and thus the chdir failes.

I encounter the same problem if I run:

cd /home/jedwards
sudo apt-get update

__Expected__

I don't think changing the behavoir of apt is something for the Linux Mint team but mintupdate should not require access to my home directory.

__Reproduction__

Run mintupdate as a user with an NFS mounted home directory to which root has no access (either root squashing or kerberos).

__Proposed solution__

Modify /usr/bin/mintupdate to chdir to "/":

See my modified version attached.

[John Edwards (john-edwards)]

Oh and I have this problem on Mint 13 (Maya) LTS

[John Edwards (john-edwards)]

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/520763

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

The attachment "mintupdate chdir patch" seems to be a patch. If it isn't, please remove the "patch" flag from the attachment, remove the "patch" tag, and if you are a member of the ~ubuntu-reviewers, unsubscribe the team.

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[David Henningsson (diwic)]

Thanks for the patch. However given your patch it sounds like this bug is Mint specific, so I'm marking the ubuntu task invalid.