Bug#542874: Acknowledgement (atop: Start-up message: open account-file: Permission denied)

[Leif Hornsved]

The error message became confusing because I missed one newline, sorry.
This is better:

l...@venus3:~$ atop
open account-file: Permission denied
warning: no process exit detection!

I have also checked it up with a fresh created user, so I can confirm
that it has nothing to do with my specific user. My /etc/skel/ is
standard. Example:
l...@venus3:~$ sudo useradd -m test
l...@venus3:~$ sudo passwd test
l...@venus3:~$ su - test
t...@venus3:~$ atop
open account-file: Permission denied
warning: no process exit detection!

No problem running as root of course:
l...@venus3:~$ sudo atop

/Leif



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Bug#542874: atop: Start-up message: open account-file: Permission denied

[Leif Hornsved]

Package: atop
Version: 1.23-1
Severity: normal

The program atop has a problem at startup that has been for years.
Immediately after issuing the atop command it prints two message lines,
then waits ten seconds and finally starts working normally. Example:
$ atop open account-file: Permission denied
warning: no process exit detection!

If I have a a look at the directory /tmp/atop.d I can see that it isn't
readable for unprivileged users:
drwx-- 2 root root 4096 20 jan 13.20 /tmp/atop.d/

I've seen it on all debian machines I've used, several different
machines, several versions of Debian and also Ubuntu 9.04. One
workaround I use is this:
$ grep tmp/atop /etc/rc.local 
[ -d /tmp/atop.d ]  chmod a+rx /tmp/atop.d
[ -e /tmp/atop.d/atop.acct ]  chmod a+r /tmp/atop.d/atop.acct

It makes atop work as it should after boot. The problem comes back when
anacron has restarted the atop daemon.

Anyway -- atop is great. I use it a lot.

/Leif Hornsved


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages atop depends on:
ii  libc6  2.9-25GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libncurses55.7+20090803-1+b1 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  logrotate  3.7.8-4   Log rotation utility
ii  zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-15 compression library - runtime

atop recommends no packages.

atop suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information



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Bug#490640: hp-scan: Aborts with a traceback when trying to scan.

[Leif Hornsved]

Hi,

I've noticed a small problem with the latest change, version 2.8.6.b-4
of hplip. It now depends on libsane, which means I get 14 MB of
unnecessary packages. libsane is 10 MB. By breaking some
rekommendations (not installing avahi-daemon etc) I can reduce it from
14 extra packages to 4 packages and about 11 MB. I don't use a scanner
and I don't think I have any use of avahi-saemon.

Well, just in case you want to know...

/Leif Hornsved



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