Your message dated Sun, 7 Mar 2010 08:40:02 +0100
with message-id <20100307074002.ga18...@rivendell>
and subject line Re: Bug#562799: /usr/bin/dpkg is installed with 000 permission
has caused the Debian Bug report #562799,
regarding /usr/bin/dpkg is installed with 000 permission
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Package: dpkg
Version: 1.15.5.5
Severity: grave
Justification: causes non-serious data loss
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii coreutils 8.1-1 GNU core utilities
ii libc6 2.10.2-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z format in
dpkg recommends no packages.
Versions of packages dpkg suggests:
ii apt 0.7.25 Advanced front-end for dpkg
-- no debconf information
dpkg stopped working after installing this version of the
package. Investigation revealed that /usr/bin/dpkg had permissions
of 000. `chmod 755 /usr/bin/dpkg` fixed the problem.
I have labelled this 'grave' as a non-obvious workaround is needed to
get dpkg working. Obviously, I couldn't use dpkg -i to downgrade!
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Hi,
On Mon, 28 Dec 2009, Cameron Horsburgh wrote:
> Thanks for the reply. You're correct---that command gives
>
> root root 0 /usr/bin/dpkg
>
> I ran the dpkg-statoverride command and I couldn't reproduce the
> behaviour, so it seems the issue is resolved. Is this a problem
> peculiar to my system, or have I found a real live bug? :-)
>
> Thanks for your help.
It's unlikely that any official Debian packages installs such an override.
you can try to grep "statoverride" in /var/lib/dpkg/info/* and see if you
find out a culprit but I doubt it.
Closing the bug. File a new one against the right packages if the search
above returns something.
Cheers,
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