On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 06:02:22PM +0330, Tsu Jan wrote: > On Mon, 25 Jan 2016 12:17:45 +0100 Michael Vogt <m...@debian.org> wrote: > > 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 > > That directory has been owned by root from time immemorial. I've never had > an "_apt" user/group and no update created such a user/group. In other > words, this is a *new* problem that started after a recent update (of apt?). [..]
Thanks! If you do not have an _apt user, that appears to be the problem. If I do: $ grep -B2 _apt /var/lib/dpkg/info/apt.postinst I see that the postinst tries to create such a user. Is there anything unusual about your system that might prevent creating this user? Thanks, Michael
