Package: apt Version: 0.5.5.1 Severity: important
-- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux bloup 2.4.21-bloup.peuh.net #1 dim jun 29 20:32:53 CEST 2003 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.ISO-8859-1 Versions of packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.3.1-17 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libgcc1 1:3.3.1-0pre0 GCC support library ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.1-0pre0 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 -- no debconf information apt-get fails under the following conditions: * apt-get is invoked by a non-privileged user through sudo * the user home directory is located on a NFS partition, for which the local root user has no root privileges. * the user home directory has drastic permissions (700 mode) Here is an example transcript : [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ echo $HOME 0:15 /home/peuh/bloup [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ mount | grep /home/peuh 0:15 files:/home/peuh on /home/peuh type nfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,bg,addr=192.168.1.2) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ ls -ld ~ 0:15 drwx------ 109 bloup peuh 8192 Jul 9 23:54 /home/peuh/bloup/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ sudo apt-get install libmad0-dev 0:15 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: libmad0-dev 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 59 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/68.0kB of archives. After unpacking 168kB of additional disk space will be used. dpkg: failed to open configuration file `/home/peuh/bloup/.dpkg.cfg' for reading: Permission denied E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ chmod 711 ~ Err 100 0:15 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ sudo apt-get install libmad0-dev 0:16 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: libmad0-dev 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 59 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/68.0kB of archives. After unpacking 168kB of additional disk space will be used. Selecting previously deselected package libmad0-dev. (Reading database ... 168448 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking libmad0-dev (from .../libmad0-dev_0.15.0b-1_i386.deb) ... Setting up libmad0-dev (0.15.0b-1) ... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ 0:16

