Your message dated Fri, 14 Aug 2015 17:16:06 +0200 with message-id <20150814151606.GA16957@crossbow> and subject line Re: apt-get update tries to chdir $PWD has caused the Debian Bug report #543816, regarding apt-get update tries to chdir $PWD to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: apt Version: 0.7.22.2 Severity: minor When I run: sudo apt-get update from a directory where root is not allowed to go (700 permission on NFS), it prints this error message and I get a non-zero exit code. E: Unable to change to /home/glisse/mail/ - chdir (13: Permission denied) It looks like the update works nonetheless, and I can always run the command from elsewhere, so this is very minor, but I believe it is still a bug. (despite what you can see in the config files, this is an up-to-date testing system) -- Package-specific info: -- apt-config dump -- APT ""; APT::Architecture "i386"; APT::Build-Essential ""; APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential"; APT::Install-Recommends "1"; APT::Install-Suggests "0"; APT::Acquire ""; APT::Acquire::Translation "environment"; APT::Cache-Limit "20000000"; APT::NeverAutoRemove ""; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-image.*"; APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-restricted-modules.*"; Dir "/"; Dir::State "var/lib/apt/"; Dir::State::lists "lists/"; Dir::State::cdroms "cdroms.list"; Dir::State::userstatus "status.user"; Dir::State::status "/var/lib/dpkg/status"; Dir::Cache "var/cache/apt/"; Dir::Cache::archives "archives/"; Dir::Cache::srcpkgcache "srcpkgcache.bin"; Dir::Cache::pkgcache "pkgcache.bin"; Dir::Etc "etc/apt/"; Dir::Etc::sourcelist "sources.list"; Dir::Etc::sourceparts "sources.list.d"; Dir::Etc::vendorlist "vendors.list"; Dir::Etc::vendorparts "vendors.list.d"; Dir::Etc::main "apt.conf"; Dir::Etc::parts "apt.conf.d"; Dir::Etc::preferences "preferences"; Dir::Etc::preferencesparts "preferences.d"; Dir::Bin ""; Dir::Bin::methods "/usr/lib/apt/methods"; Dir::Bin::dpkg "/usr/bin/dpkg"; Dir::Log "var/log/apt"; Dir::Log::Terminal "term.log"; DPkg ""; DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs ""; DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt || exit 10"; DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges --apt || test $? -ne 10"; DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true"; DPkg::Tools ""; DPkg::Tools::Options ""; DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/sbin/apt-listbugs ""; DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/sbin/apt-listbugs::Version "2"; DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/bin/apt-listchanges ""; DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/bin/apt-listchanges::Version "2"; DPkg::Post-Invoke ""; DPkg::Post-Invoke:::: "if [ -x /usr/bin/debsums ]; then /usr/bin/debsums --generate=nocheck -sp /var/cache/apt/archives; fi"; DPkg::Post-Invoke:: "test -f /var/run/junior-config.usermenu && if [ -x /usr/sbin/blend-update-usermenus ] ; then /usr/sbin/blend-update-usermenus junior ; fi ; rm -f /var/run/junior-config.usermenu"; -- /etc/apt/preferences -- Package: ocaml-mode Pin: version 3.10.2-3 Pin-Priority: 990 Package: cpp-3.4 Pin: version 3.4.6-6 Pin-Priority: 990 Package: gcc-3.4 Pin: version 3.4.6-6 Pin-Priority: 990 Package: gcc-3.4-base Pin: version 3.4.6-6 Pin-Priority: 990 Package: libg2c0 Pin: version 1:3.4.6-6 Pin-Priority: 990 Package: iceape-dev-bin Pin: version 1.1.14-1 Pin-Priority: 990 Package: * Pin: release a=stable Pin-Priority: 500 Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 50 Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 10 -- /etc/apt/sources.list -- deb file:/var/cache/apt-build/repository apt-build main deb http://mir2.ovh.net/debian/ stable main non-free contrib deb-src http://mir2.ovh.net/debian/ stable main non-free contrib deb ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib deb-src ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib deb ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib deb-src ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib deb ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian-non-US/ stable/non-US main contrib non-free deb-src ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian-non-US/ stable/non-US main contrib non-free deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main non-free contrib deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main non-free contrib -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (50, 'testing'), (10, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages apt depends on: ii debian-archive-keyring 2009.01.31 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a ii libc6 2.9-23 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.4.1-1 GCC support library ii libstdc++6 4.4.1-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 apt recommends no packages. Versions of packages apt suggests: ii apt-doc 0.7.22.2 Documentation for APT ii aptitude 0.4.11.11-1+b2 terminal-based package manager ii bzip2 1.0.5-3 high-quality block-sorting file co ii dpkg-dev 1.15.3.1 Debian package development tools ii lzma 4.43-14 Compression method of 7z format in ii python-apt 0.7.12.1 Python interface to libapt-pkg ii synaptic 0.62.7+b1 Graphical package manager -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 08:46:20AM +0200, Marc Glisse wrote: > from a directory where root is not allowed to go (700 permission on NFS), > it prints this error message and I get a non-zero exit code. > > E: Unable to change to /home/glisse/mail/ - chdir (13: Permission denied) > > It looks like the update works nonetheless, and I can always run the > command from elsewhere, so this is very minor, but I believe it is still > a bug. I just tried something similar: I created an empty directory, changed into it and then removed it from an other terminal. I then called "apt update" and it ran & finished successsfully without any message about failing to change dir – which it should have if it had tried, so I assume this was fixed and the meantime and therefore I am closing this report. Feel free to reopen if this can still be reproduced of course! Best regards David Kalnischkiessignature.asc
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