On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 01:58:12PM +0330, Tsu Jan wrote: > On Wed, 23 Dec 2015 11:01:29 +0100 Alexandre Detiste > <alexandre.deti...@gmail.com> wrote: > > This is likely a duplicate of this (read from #15), IE, not a bug: > > For me, in Debian Testing, the message is: > > > W: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file > '/var/cache/apt/archives/partial/PACKAGE' couldn't be accessed by user > '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied) > > This IS a bug for, at least, two reasons: > > (1) The Synaptic user encounters such an unhelpful message after the > download is complete; > > (2) The message is not only unhelpful but also meaningless TO THE END USER > because there's no '/var/cache/apt/archives/partial/PACKAGE' when the > download in complete.
This is a bug indeed, the question is how it got triggered, that dir should be owend by the _apt user. What is the output of: $ ls -dl /var/cache/apt/archives/partial/ Thanks, Michael
