Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: base-files
Ubuntu 8.04.2
base-files 4.0.1ubuntu5.8.04.4
mor...@xxxxxx:~$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall (or install, or upgrade)
base-files
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 59 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
Setting up base-files (4.0.1ubuntu5.8.04.4) ...
lsof -p `pidof find` shows working directory and open directory handles
under /var (/var/volumes/... which I think is site-specific).
This may seem related to 297595, 306973 but both of these say that find
is searching through /etc. However I cannot find any links under my /etc
pointing to directories in /var (searched using find -type l | xargs
namei | grep var), only files.
The affected machine's /var/volumes contains 250GB of user data -- other
installations may have far more. The argument that it's better to be
thorough because this upgrade only happens once, seems a bit out of
balance here. Also, base-files has no business changing permissions in
arbitrary directories containing user data.
At least there should be a message printed at the start of postinst
stating that this upgrade could take a while...
** Affects: base-files (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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base-files postinstall recurses into /var
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/319477
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