Bug#686026: /usr/bin/mandb: can't search directory /usr/local/share/man: Permission denied
On 08/31/2012 11:02 PM, Colin Watson wrote: On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 05:23:25PM +0200, xiscu wrote: On 08/31/2012 12:32 AM, Colin Watson wrote: On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 07:59:19PM +0200, xiscu wrote: /usr/bin/mandb: can't search directory /usr/local/share/man: Permission denied What does 'ls -ld /usr/local/share/man' say; drwx--S--- 3 root staff 4096 Aug 25 12:41 /usr/local/share/man and have you intentionally changed the permissions of that directory? Not intentionally Then to be honest I think the correct solution to this bug is to make that directory world-readable/executable. It doesn't seem to make sense for /usr/local/share/man to be readable only by root. Perhaps it was set that way by some deranged install script. chmod 2755 /usr/local/share/man Does that fix your problem? Depending on how far the insanity goes, you may need to similarly chmod some subdirectories. I've changed the permissions (also for the subdirectories) as you proposed, then I've upgraded the packages with aptitude and no complains where raised. E.g.: [...] Unpacking replacement initscripts ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Setting up initscripts (2.88dsf-31) ... [...] As far as I can say it's gone. So I think that you can close the bug. Nowadays I'll keep an eye on the messages, if that happens again I can just send extra info to it (686026). Is it that Ok? Thank you! xiscu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#686026: /usr/bin/mandb: can't search directory /usr/local/share/man: Permission denied
On 08/31/2012 12:32 AM, Colin Watson wrote: On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 07:59:19PM +0200, xiscu wrote: /usr/bin/mandb: can't search directory /usr/local/share/man: Permission denied What does 'ls -ld /usr/local/share/man' say; drwx--S--- 3 root staff 4096 Aug 25 12:41 /usr/local/share/man and have you intentionally changed the permissions of that directory? Not intentionally Regards, Xiscu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#686026: /usr/bin/mandb: can't search directory /usr/local/share/man: Permission denied
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 05:23:25PM +0200, xiscu wrote: On 08/31/2012 12:32 AM, Colin Watson wrote: On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 07:59:19PM +0200, xiscu wrote: /usr/bin/mandb: can't search directory /usr/local/share/man: Permission denied What does 'ls -ld /usr/local/share/man' say; drwx--S--- 3 root staff 4096 Aug 25 12:41 /usr/local/share/man and have you intentionally changed the permissions of that directory? Not intentionally Then to be honest I think the correct solution to this bug is to make that directory world-readable/executable. It doesn't seem to make sense for /usr/local/share/man to be readable only by root. Perhaps it was set that way by some deranged install script. chmod 2755 /usr/local/share/man Does that fix your problem? Depending on how far the insanity goes, you may need to similarly chmod some subdirectories. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#686026: /usr/bin/mandb: can't search directory /usr/local/share/man: Permission denied
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 07:59:19PM +0200, xiscu wrote: /usr/bin/mandb: can't search directory /usr/local/share/man: Permission denied What does 'ls -ld /usr/local/share/man' say; and have you intentionally changed the permissions of that directory? -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#686026: /usr/bin/mandb: can't search directory /usr/local/share/man: Permission denied
Package: man-db Version: 2.6.2-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? Updating packages with aptitude * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? * What was the outcome of this action? Unpacking replacement os-prober ... Processing triggers for man-db ... /usr/bin/mandb: can't search directory /usr/local/share/man: Permission denied /usr/bin/mandb: can't search directory /usr/local/share/man: Permission denied Setting up libudev0:amd64 (175-7) ... * What outcome did you expect instead? No errors or warnings or messages like the above ones. Just a clean installation or update. Thanks in advance, xiscu -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages man-db depends on: ii bsdmainutils 9.0.3 ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.46 ii dpkg 1.16.8 ii groff-base 1.21-9 ii libc6 2.13-35 ii libgdbm3 1.8.3-11 ii libpipeline1 1.2.1-1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.7.dfsg-13 man-db recommends no packages. Versions of packages man-db suggests: ii groff1.21-9 ii iceweasel [www-browser] 10.0.6esr-2 ii less 444-4 ii lynx-cur [www-browser] 2.8.8dev.12-2 -- debconf information: man-db/install-setuid: false man-db/auto-update: true -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
