Confirmed, this seems to affect any installation via the "try Ubuntu" route (rather than "install Ubuntu"). The problem is that ubiquity drops privileges, but fails to regain them correctly before reconfiguring certain packages. The affected files are those which are written by the package reconfiguration process.
Some of them will be automatically cleaned up over time and as updates are released. I've categorized them as follows:
Confirmed, this seems to affect any installation via the "try Ubuntu" route (rather than "install Ubuntu"). The problem is that ubiquity drops privileges, but fails to regain them correctly before reconfiguring certain packages. The affected files are those which are written by the package reconfiguration process.
Some of them will be automatically cleaned up over time and as updates are released. I've categorized them as follows:
daily: apt/extended_ states apt/cdroms. list apt/lists/ *
/var/lib/
/var/lib/
/var/lib/
any package update: debconf/ config. dat-old debconf/ config. dat debconf/ templates. dat-old debconf/ passwords. dat debconf/ templates. dat dpkg/status- old dpkg/available- old dpkg/status dpkg/diversions dpkg/available dpkg/triggers/ Unincorp dpkg/diversions -old
/var/cache/
/var/cache/
/var/cache/
/var/cache/
/var/cache/
/var/lib/
/var/lib/
/var/lib/
/var/lib/
/var/lib/
/var/lib/
/var/lib/
kernel update: 2.6.27- 7-generic img-2.6. 27-7-generic xfs_stage1_ 5 jfs_stage1_ 5 minix_stage1_ 5 e2fs_stage1_ 5 reiserfs_ stage1_ 5 device. map fat_stage1_ 5 installed- version
/initrd.img
/vmlinuz
/boot/vmlinuz-
/boot/initrd.
/boot/grub
/boot/grub/
/boot/grub/
/boot/grub/
/boot/grub/
/boot/grub/stage1
/boot/grub/
/boot/grub/stage2
/boot/grub/default
/boot/grub/
/boot/grub/
/boot/grub/
locales update: belocs/ hashfile. old belocs/ hashfile
/var/lib/
/var/lib/
various updates: gconf/debian. defaults/ %gconf- tree.xml ldconfig/ aux-cache
/var/lib/
/var/cache/
/etc/ld.so.cache
tzdata update:
/etc/localtime
don't care: installer/ partman installer/ initial- status. gz
/var/log/installer
/var/log/
/var/log/
would have to be fixed manually(?): -contest. conf tools/conf. d/resume console- setup apt.conf. d/00trustcdrom sources. list locales/ supported. d/local
/etc/papersize
/etc/popularity
/etc/initramfs-
/etc/fstab
/etc/hosts
/etc/X11/xorg.conf
/etc/default/
/etc/default/locale
/etc/apt/
/etc/apt/
/var/lib/
/media/cdrom0
/media/cdrom1
/media/cdrom
/cdrom