Bug#808802: #808802 synaptic: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file '/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/ftp.fr.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_InRelease'

2016-01-28 Thread Tsu Jan
I was wrong. The problem still persists :(

Bug#808802: #808802 synaptic: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file '/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/ftp.fr.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_InRelease'

2016-01-28 Thread Tsu Jan
It seems that this issue is fixed by apt-1.2 but it's replaced by another message: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/https could not be found. I hope the latter will be fixed by apt-1.2.1, which I haven't tried yet.

Bug#808802: #808802 synaptic: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file '/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/ftp.fr.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_InRelease'

2016-01-25 Thread Tsu Jan
On Mon, 25 Jan 2016 12:17:45 +0100 Michael Vogt 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

Bug#808802: #808802 synaptic: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file '/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/ftp.fr.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_InRelease'

2016-01-25 Thread Michael Vogt
On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 06:02:22PM +0330, Tsu Jan wrote: > On Mon, 25 Jan 2016 12:17:45 +0100 Michael Vogt 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

Bug#808802: #808802 synaptic: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file '/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/ftp.fr.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_InRelease'

2016-01-25 Thread Tsu Jan
On Mon, 25 Jan 2016 17:03:36 +0100 Michael Vogt wrote: > > 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

Bug#808802: #808802 synaptic: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file '/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/ftp.fr.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_InRelease'

2016-01-25 Thread Michael Vogt
On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 01:58:12PM +0330, Tsu Jan wrote: > On Wed, 23 Dec 2015 11:01:29 +0100 Alexandre Detiste > wrote: > > This is likely a duplicate of this (read from #15), IE, not a bug: > > For me, in Debian Testing, the message is: > > > W: Can't drop

Bug#808802: #808802 synaptic: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file '/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/ftp.fr.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_InRelease'

2016-01-05 Thread Tsu Jan
On Wed, 23 Dec 2015 11:01:29 +0100 Alexandre Detiste wrote: > This is likely a duplicate of this (read from #15), IE, not a bug: For me, in Debian Testing, the message is: W: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file '/var/cache/apt/archives/partial/PACKAGE'

Bug#808802: #808802 synaptic: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file '/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/ftp.fr.debian.org_debian_dists_testing_InRelease'

2015-12-23 Thread Alexandre Detiste
Hi, This is likely a duplicate of this (read from #15), IE, not a bug: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=805069#15 Bonne journée