Comment 66 for bug 1522675

Thanks, looks like it answers questions I have not encountered yet as
well. So many sites out there, and I had not discovered this one yet.
Thanks for taking the time.

On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 7:57 PM, Daniel Richard G. <email address hidden> wrote:

> Hi Luigi,
>
> This StackExchange posting should answer your question:
>
> https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/3586/what-do-the-numbers-in-a
> -man-page-mean
>
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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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