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: /var/lib/apt/extended_states /var/lib/apt/cdroms.list /var/lib/apt/lists/* any package update: /var/cache/debconf/config.dat-old /var/cache/debconf/config.dat /var/cache/debconf/templates.dat-old /var/cache/debconf/passwords.dat /var/cache/debconf/templates.dat /var/lib/dpkg/status-old /var/lib/dpkg/available-old /var/lib/dpkg/status /var/lib/dpkg/diversions /var/lib/dpkg/available /var/lib/dpkg/triggers/Unincorp /var/lib/dpkg/diversions-old kernel update: /initrd.img /vmlinuz /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-7-generic /boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-7-generic /boot/grub /boot/grub/xfs_stage1_5 /boot/grub/jfs_stage1_5 /boot/grub/minix_stage1_5 /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 /boot/grub/stage1 /boot/grub/reiserfs_stage1_5 /boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/default /boot/grub/device.map /boot/grub/fat_stage1_5 /boot/grub/installed-version locales update: /var/lib/belocs/hashfile.old /var/lib/belocs/hashfile various updates: /var/lib/gconf/debian.defaults/%gconf-tree.xml /var/cache/ldconfig/aux-cache /etc/ld.so.cache tzdata update: /etc/localtime don't care: /var/log/installer /var/log/installer/partman /var/log/installer/initial-status.gz would have to be fixed manually(?): /etc/papersize /etc/popularity-contest.conf /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume /etc/fstab /etc/hosts /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/default/console-setup /etc/default/locale /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/00trustcdrom /etc/apt/sources.list /var/lib/locales/supported.d/local /media/cdrom0 /media/cdrom1 /media/cdrom /cdrom -- Ubuntu 8.10rc Desktop amd64 - lots of files with gid 999 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/288479 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
