Public bug reported:
As part of my sandboxed APT I noticed that the package failed to install
as it was trying to write to /root.
/root is a user directory, not a system one, which may not even exist
because the administrator changed it to like /home/root, for example,
and we definitely should not be writing system files in user
directories.
Preparing to unpack .../16-network-manager_1.42.4-1ubuntu4_amd64.deb ...
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/root/NetworkManager.bak’: Read-only file system
cp: cannot create directory
'/root/NetworkManager.bak/system-connections_1.42.4-1ubuntu2': No such file or
directory
dpkg: error processing archive
/tmp/apt-dpkg-install-x9x0Qo/16-network-manager_1.42.4-1ubuntu4_amd64.deb
(--unpack):
new network-manager package pre-installation script subprocess returned error
exit status 1
** Affects: network-manager (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2021937
Title:
preinst writes to /root
Status in network-manager package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
As part of my sandboxed APT I noticed that the package failed to
install as it was trying to write to /root.
/root is a user directory, not a system one, which may not even exist
because the administrator changed it to like /home/root, for example,
and we definitely should not be writing system files in user
directories.
Preparing to unpack .../16-network-manager_1.42.4-1ubuntu4_amd64.deb ...
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/root/NetworkManager.bak’: Read-only file
system
cp: cannot create directory
'/root/NetworkManager.bak/system-connections_1.42.4-1ubuntu2': No such file or
directory
dpkg: error processing archive
/tmp/apt-dpkg-install-x9x0Qo/16-network-manager_1.42.4-1ubuntu4_amd64.deb
(--unpack):
new network-manager package pre-installation script subprocess returned
error exit status 1
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