ships /var/crash when it doesn't need to, breaks apport for non-root processes on karmic installs
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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update-notifier (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
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Michael Vogt | ||
Karmic |
Fix Released
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High
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Michael Vogt | ||
Lucid |
Fix Released
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High
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Michael Vogt |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: update-notifier
update-
This doesn't have the special permissions that are expected for that dir,
and so when a non-root process attempts to write to the dir it fails.
It doesn't need to ship the dir at all as the apport upstart job creates
it. (Though checking the code handles its absence might be wise)
I am assuming that as dpkg unpacks the dir it will not change the
permissions on disk, so users who upgraded will not see the issue.
It is probably straightforward to stop shipping the dir, but that will
leave karmic installs broken, so we probably want some extra
handling to fix existing installations.
Thanks,
James
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Oct 12 19:04:38 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: update-
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/zsh
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: update-notifier
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-12-generic i686
Related branches
- Dennis Kaarsemaker: Pending requested
- Diff: 0 lines
Changed in update-notifier (Ubuntu Karmic): | |
status: | New → Fix Committed |
This bug was fixed in the package update-notifier - 0.90
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update-notifier (0.90) karmic; urgency=low
* data/update- notifier. schemas. in: update- notifier- common. dirs: update- notifier- common. postinst: notifier- common (LP: #449738) cdrom-check: software- center does not yet support addon CDs) warning- panel by default and use gtk
- fix typo (LP: #400214)
* debian/
- do not ship /var/crash here (LP: #449738)
* debian/rules:
- create /var/crash with the right permissions
* debian/
- fixup if permissions of /var/crash are incorrect due to
update-
* data/apt-
- only offer addon-cd if gnome-app-install is installed
(
* src/update.c:
- use gtk-dialog-
fallback mechanism to use the gtk-dialog-warning stock icon
-- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:15:35 +0200