Your message dated Thu, 17 Dec 2015 19:44:16 +0000 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line flashplugin-nonfree: Wrong permission on /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/flash-mozilla.so has caused the Debian Bug report #802692, regarding flashplugin-nonfree: Wrong permission on /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/flash-mozilla.so to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: flashplugin-nonfree Version: 1:3.6.1+b1 Severity: important The file /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/flash-mozilla.so is not readable for a non-root user, which causes the command "update-alternatives -get-selections" to fail: $ update-alternatives --get-selections update-alternatives: error: unable to open file '/var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/flash-mozilla.so': Permission denied Best regards Torquil Macdonald Sørensen -- Package-specific info: Debian version: stretch/sid Architecture: amd64 Package version: 1:3.6.1+b1 Adobe Flash Player version: LNX 11,2,202,521 MD5 checksums: 160a01dd00527304e5291e65eb0c65e2 /var/cache/flashplugin-nonfree/get-upstream-version.pl md5sum: /var/cache/flashplugin-nonfree/install_flash_player_11_linux.x86_64.tar.gz: Permission denied bf65cc6bb862a6117f21b618f8c98a60 /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so Alternatives: update-alternatives: error: unable to open file '/var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/flash-mozilla.so': Permission denied lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 Aug 26 21:44 /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/flash-mozilla.so -> /etc/alternatives/flash-mozilla.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/flash-mozilla.so: symbolic link to /etc/alternatives/flash-mozilla.so -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages flashplugin-nonfree depends on: ii binutils 2.25.1-7 ii ca-certificates 20150426 ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.57 ii gnupg 1.4.19-5 ii libatk1.0-0 2.18.0-1 ii libcairo2 1.14.2-2 ii libcurl3-gnutls 7.45.0-1 ii libfontconfig1 2.11.0-6.3 ii libfreetype6 2.6-2 ii libgcc1 1:5.2.1-22 ii libglib2.0-0 2.46.1-1 ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.28-1 ii libnspr4 2:4.10.9-2 ii libnss3 2:3.20-1 ii libpango1.0-0 1.38.1-1 ii libstdc++6 5.2.1-22 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.3-1 ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1 ii libxt6 1:1.1.4-1+b1 ii wget 1.16.3-3 flashplugin-nonfree recommends no packages. Versions of packages flashplugin-nonfree suggests: ii fonts-dejavu 2.35-1 pn hal <none> ii iceweasel 39.0-1 pn konqueror-nsplugins <none> ii ttf-mscorefonts-installer 3.6 ii ttf-xfree86-nonfree 4.2.1-4 -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---Not true on jessie and not true on stretch. $ ls -l /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/flash-mozilla.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 99 Dec 17 13:19 /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/flash-mozilla.so $ ls -l /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/flash-mozilla.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 99 Dec 17 20:38 /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/flash-mozilla.so
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