I have pointed this out privately. brywilharris (at) gmail (dot) com On Sep 25, 2012 11:25 AM, "Paul F" <[email protected]> wrote:
> See also Bug #756317, Bug #1001209, Bug #1034834 > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug > report. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1055614 > > Title: > captive web portal corrupt Indexes > > Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu: > Confirmed > > Bug description: > When the computer is connected to a captive web portal, the update > manager does not check to see that files downloaded are valid indexes. > This results in the web portal's html file being written over some or > all of the files in /var/lib/apt/lists. I have been able to remove > the corrupted files (assuming if they are that easy to overwrite, then > blowing them away will be OK too) with the following command: > > cd /var/lib/apt/lists > for foo in `grep -r weblogin.jsp .|cut -f 1 -d ':'`; do sudo rm -f $foo; > done > > This is not something a new user could be expected to do. I don't > know if the behavior has changed recently, but this is the second time > I have run into this bug in the last month. > > This results in complete breakage of the update system stops all > updating until it is fixed. The user does get a little red error icon > with an relatively opaque error message which was how I knew to look > in the /var/lib/apt/lists directory. > > This prevents all security updates so I have flagged it as a security > vulnerability. > > 1) The release of Ubuntu you are using, via 'lsb_release -rd' or System > -> About Ubuntu > bryan@bryan-Aspire-V3-771:~/temp$ lsb_release -rd > Description: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS > Release: 12.04 > > 2) The version of the package you are using, via 'apt-cache policy > pkgname' or by checking in Software Center > bryan@bryan-Aspire-V3-771:~/temp$ apt-cache policy update-manager > update-manager: > Installed: 1:0.156.14.9 > Candidate: 1:0.156.14.9 > Version table: > *** 1:0.156.14.9 0 > 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates/main > amd64 Packages > 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status > 1:0.156.14.5 0 > 500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-security/main > amd64 Packages > 1:0.156.14 0 > 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 > Packages > > 3) What you expected to happen > /var/lib/apt/lists should not get corrupted when the computer is on a > captive portal before login. > > 4) What happened instead > /var/lib/apt/lists does get corrupted in a way that has no (obvious to a > normal user) fix. > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/1055614/+subscriptions > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1055614 Title: captive web portal corrupt Indexes To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/1055614/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
