Comment 62 for bug 1522675

Is the command "CHOWN" or "CHOWN(1)" ?
Thank you, for the info on this particular error as I had fond that the
chown command was some how to be used,

Probably off topic here, but it would be a great help if you could answer.
I've been puzzled by the (1)? My attempt at finding --h help or invoking
the command using "chown(1)" always returned the "unexpected argument "(""
error. I haven't quite figured out (1)'s meaning or necessity.

Being new to Linux and Unix and a Mister Literal has left me wondering if
(1) or (2) is not part of the command, why is it there?

If that info has been lost in the Unix Halls of Time that's OK. As I
remember from my 8-bit days ( was a reserved character in the DOS world,
Same set in the Unix world?

As a wise instructor friend of mine said "Common sense is only what has
been commonly taught." I keep finding I missed that class at some point.

On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 3:09 PM, Travisgevans <email address hidden>
wrote:

> ^ Setting the owner of the /var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-
> downloads/partial directory to “_apt” on my 16.04 box is what I did to
> get rid of the error. I believe I've occasionally run into a few
> similar messages about other APT “partial” directories scattered around
> in /var, too; in those cases, the solution was the same.
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1522675
>
> Title:
> Warning messages about unsandboxed downloads
>
> Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
> Status in update-notifier package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
> Status in apt package in Debian:
> Fix Released
> 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.
>
> oem@u64:~$ ls -l .synaptic
> total 4
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 oem oem 0 Aug 25 11:19 options
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 oem oem 236 Aug 25 11:19 synaptic.conf
>
> oem@u64:~$ ls -l /var/lib/apt/lists/
> ....
> -rw-r----- 1 root root 0 Sep 20 06:36 lock
> drwx------ 2 _apt root 16384 Sep 24 15:25 partial
> ......
>
> oem@u64:~$ sudo ls -l /var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/
> .....
> drwxr-xr-x 2 _apt root 4096 Sep 22 23:33 partial
>
>
> 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)
>
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