Re: [arch-general] [ Pacman -Syu ] Creating temporary files..., error: command failed to execute correctly

2019-09-09 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Eli, > > atop: '/var/log/atop/dummy_after' modification time mismatch > > (expected 2019-02-06 20:40:14) > > atop: '/var/log/atop/dummy_before' modification time mismatch > > (expected 2019-02-06

Re: [arch-general] [ Pacman -Syu ] Creating temporary files..., error: command failed to execute correctly

2019-09-09 Thread 陈贤文
Dear Eli, Thank you! Question regarding status of the bug has been filed! Yours sincerely, Xianwen On 09/09/2019 00.47, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: On 9/8/19 6:27 PM, Xianwen Chen (陈贤文) via arch-general wrote: For example, $ sudo pacrepairfile --uid --gid --mode --mtime

Re: [arch-general] [ Pacman -Syu ] Creating temporary files..., error: command failed to execute correctly

2019-09-08 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 9/8/19 6:27 PM, Xianwen Chen (陈贤文) via arch-general wrote: > For example, > > $ sudo pacrepairfile --uid --gid --mode --mtime > /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/colord.conf > > outputs > >     /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/colord.conf: set uid to 0 >     /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/colord.conf: set gid to 0 >     warning:

Re: [arch-general] [ Pacman -Syu ] Creating temporary files..., error: command failed to execute correctly

2019-09-08 Thread 陈贤文
Dear Eli, Thank you. I wrote a regulation expression, which extracts file name and path from the output of paccheck: $ sudo paccheck --file-properties --quiet | grep -Po "(?<=\').*(?=\')" | sudo pacrepairfile --uid --gid --mode --mtime However, somehow pacrepairfile was not working. For

Re: [arch-general] [ Pacman -Syu ] Creating temporary files..., error: command failed to execute correctly

2019-09-08 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 9/8/19 4:40 PM, Xianwen Chen (陈贤文) via arch-general wrote: > Dear Eli, > > Thank you! > > Is there a way to ask paccheck to list only files that need to be fixed? > > For example, if I run > >     sudo paccheck --file-properties --quiet > > I get list of files with package information and

Re: [arch-general] [ Pacman -Syu ] Creating temporary files..., error: command failed to execute correctly

2019-09-08 Thread 陈贤文
Dear Eli, Thank you! Is there a way to ask paccheck to list only files that need to be fixed? For example, if I run     sudo paccheck --file-properties --quiet I get list of files with package information and error information, such as     screen: '/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/screen.conf'

Re: [arch-general] [ Pacman -Syu ] Creating temporary files..., error: command failed to execute correctly

2019-09-08 Thread 陈贤文
Dear Ralph, Great! Thank you very much for the tips! Yours sincerely, Xianwen On 08/09/2019 15.11, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Dear Xianwen, there are quite many files on my system that had wrong permissions or GID's. Perhaps there's been an errant recursive chmod or chgrp in the past by root.

Re: [arch-general] [ Pacman -Syu ] Creating temporary files..., error: command failed to execute correctly

2019-09-08 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 9/8/19 7:59 AM, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > $ sudo -i paccheck --file-properties atop > atop: '/var/log/atop/dummy_after' permission mismatch (expected 644) > atop: '/var/log/atop/dummy_after' modification time mismatch > (expected 2019-02-06

Re: [arch-general] [ Pacman -Syu ] Creating temporary files..., error: command failed to execute correctly

2019-09-08 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Dear Xianwen, > there are quite many files on my system that had wrong permissions or > GID's. Perhaps there's been an errant recursive chmod or chgrp in the past by root. > Is there a way to automatically correct all the permissions and GID's? Others like Eli might know an mtree-specific way,

Re: [arch-general] [ Pacman -Syu ] Creating temporary files..., error: command failed to execute correctly

2019-09-08 Thread 陈贤文
Dear Ralph and Eli, Thank you. As Ralph suspected, there are quite many files on my system that had wrong permissions or GID's. Is there a way to automatically correct all the permissions and GID's? Yours sincerely, Xianwen On 08/09/2019 11.28, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: On

Re: [arch-general] [ Pacman -Syu ] Creating temporary files..., error: command failed to execute correctly

2019-09-08 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Eli, > > warning: atop: /var/log/atop/dummy_after (Permissions mismatch) > ... > > Not every error means the file on disk must be changed, perhaps it's > > a packaging problem > > pacman -S pacutils && paccheck --file-properties Thanks. $ sudo -i paccheck --file-properties atop

Re: [arch-general] [ Pacman -Syu ] Creating temporary files..., error: command failed to execute correctly

2019-09-08 Thread Eli Schwartz via arch-general
On 9/8/19 5:20 AM, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Dear Xianwen, > >> After searching on-line, it seemed that similar problems were reported >> by other users of systemd. The fix is to set owner of / as root.root. >> I tried the solution and it worked! > > I'm glad you fixed it. / not being root:root

Re: [arch-general] [ Pacman -Syu ] Creating temporary files..., error: command failed to execute correctly

2019-09-08 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Dear Xianwen, > After searching on-line, it seemed that similar problems were reported > by other users of systemd. The fix is to set owner of / as root.root. > I tried the solution and it worked! I'm glad you fixed it. / not being root:root is strange. You may wish to sudo -i pacman

Re: [arch-general] [ Pacman -Syu ] Creating temporary files..., error: command failed to execute correctly

2019-09-07 Thread 陈贤文
Dear Ralph, Thank you very much for the lecture! It seems that the issue may be permissions.     $ sudo /usr/bin/systemd-tmpfiles --create /run/tmpfiles.d/kmod.conf Arch returns:     Detected unsafe path transition / → /dev during canonicalization of /dev.     Detected unsafe path

Re: [arch-general] [ Pacman -Syu ] Creating temporary files..., error: command failed to execute correctly

2019-09-07 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Dear Xianwen, > :: Running post-transaction hooks... ... > (5/9) Creating temporary files... > error: command failed to execute correctly > (6/9) Reloading device manager configuration... Here's the path I trod to investigate this. $ cd /usr/share/libalpm/hooks $ grep 'Creating