This just happened to me as well today when I upgraded some packages. I am running Kubuntu as well. I've just been upgrading whatever packages are suggested, so I'm not exactly sure what version of KDE I'm up to. /tmp is not a mounted directory for me, but a regular dir (not in mount command, not in fstab).
** Description changed: - Something keeps regularly changing the file permissions on /tmp so that - it is not writeable by any user other than root: + This just happened to me as well today when I upgraded some packages. I + am running Kubuntu as well. I've just been upgrading whatever packages + are suggested, so I'm not exactly sure what version of KDE I'm up to. + /tmp is not a mounted directory for me, but a regular dir (not in mount + command, not in fstab). + + + Something keeps regularly changing the file permissions on /tmp so that it is not writeable by any user other than root: $ ls -ald /tmp drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 900 2007-05-03 19:27 /tmp so that user jobs which need to write temporary files fail until I manually change the permissions to allow all users to write to /tmp. But after a period (unfortunately I'm not sure how long) the permissions revert to the wrong values again. /tmp is a tmpfs filesystem, specified in /etc/fstab as: /dev/tmpfs /tmp tmpfs size=20g,noatime 0 0 ** Description changed: - This just happened to me as well today when I upgraded some packages. I - am running Kubuntu as well. I've just been upgrading whatever packages - are suggested, so I'm not exactly sure what version of KDE I'm up to. - /tmp is not a mounted directory for me, but a regular dir (not in mount - command, not in fstab). - Something keeps regularly changing the file permissions on /tmp so that it is not writeable by any user other than root: $ ls -ald /tmp drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 900 2007-05-03 19:27 /tmp so that user jobs which need to write temporary files fail until I manually change the permissions to allow all users to write to /tmp. But after a period (unfortunately I'm not sure how long) the permissions revert to the wrong values again. /tmp is a tmpfs filesystem, specified in /etc/fstab as: /dev/tmpfs /tmp tmpfs size=20g,noatime 0 0 -- /tmp file permissions keep changing so only root can write to it https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/112151 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
