Your message dated Fri, 11 Mar 2016 22:40:00 +0800
with message-id <[email protected]>
and subject line Re: Bug#802696: petsc: Wrong permissions on
/var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/petsc
has caused the Debian Bug report #802696,
regarding petsc: Wrong permissions on /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/petsc
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Source: petsc
Version: 3.6.2.dfsg1-2
Severity: important
The file /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/petsc is not readable by a non-root user,
thereby causing update-alternatives to fail:
$ ls -l /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/petsc
-rw------- 1 root root 1792 Oct 22 18:28 /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/petsc
$ update-alternatives --display petsc
update-alternatives: error: unable to open file
'/var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/petsc': Permission denied
and even the following command not related to petsc fails because of this:
$ update-alternatives --get-selections
update-alternatives: error: unable to open file
'/var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/petsc': Permission denied
Best regards
Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
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Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
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On Thu, 22 Oct 2015 18:57:47 +0200 =?utf-
8?q?Torquil_Macdonald_S=C3=B8rensen?= <[email protected]> wrote:
> Source: petsc
> Version: 3.6.2.dfsg1-2
> Severity: important
>
> The file /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/petsc is not readable by a non-
root user,
> thereby causing update-alternatives to fail:
>
> $ ls -l /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/petsc
> -rw------- 1 root root 1792 Oct 22 18:28
/var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/petsc
>
> $ update-alternatives --display petsc
> update-alternatives: error: unable to open file
'/var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/petsc': Permission denied
>
This seems to have been a transient problem, perhaps related to some
configuration setting on your system. It's not coming from petsc, so
I'll close the bug now.
Drew
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