** Description changed: - I saw some odd behaviour of screen during the upgrade from Xenial to - Bionic using do-release-upgrade. I was trying to use screen to reattach - to an upgrade process that had gone sideways during a router daemon - upgrade (duh). But I was told that the permissions on /run/screen needed - to be 777. Does the bionic version of screen have that as a requirement? - And if so, perhaps do-release-upgrade should set those permissions in - anticipation of the upgrade process so that screen works with both old - and new versions. + [Test Case] + 1) have an Ubuntu 16.04 + 2) rm /etc/cron.daily/mlocate (this'll ensure you get a conffile prompt) + 3) ssh to Ubuntu 16.04 system so the release upgrade is run in screen + 4) run do-release-upgrade -d + 5) wait for the conffile prompt from mlocate + 6) ssh to the Ubuntu 16.04 system being upgraded + 7) sudo -i + 8) run screen -rd + + With the version of screen in the release pocket you'll receive the + following error: + + root@clean-xenial-amd64:~# screen -rd + Directory '/run/screen' must have mode 777. + + [Original Description] + I saw some odd behaviour of screen during the upgrade from Xenial to Bionic using do-release-upgrade. I was trying to use screen to reattach to an upgrade process that had gone sideways during a router daemon upgrade (duh). But I was told that the permissions on /run/screen needed to be 777. Does the bionic version of screen have that as a requirement? And if so, perhaps do-release-upgrade should set those permissions in anticipation of the upgrade process so that screen works with both old and new versions.
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