Hi,
Am Sat, 23 Jun 2018 01:03:44 +0200 schrieb Lars Kruse <de...@sumpfralle.de>: > I just checked here, whether it would be sufficient to simply run the cron-job > as "nobody" (instead of root). This works for me. > This would be preferable (compared to the change above), or? > Or maybe I overlooked something? indeed I overlooked something :( The random nature of the "update" action was hiding/postponing the following error messages: W: chmod 0700 of directory /var/lib/apt/lists/partial failed - SetupAPTPartialDirectory (1: Operation not permitted) E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (13: Permission denied) E: Unable to lock directory /var/lib/apt/lists/ W: Problem unlinking the file /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin - RemoveCaches (13: Permission denied) W: Problem unlinking the file /var/cache/apt/srcpkgcache.bin - RemoveCaches (13: Permission denied) Running the plugin as root would obviously solve this. But it also leads to issues like #849548 [1]. Let's give the issue another few weeks of time - maybe I will come up with a rewrite of the apt_all plugin. Otherwise we will run apt_all as root (as suggested above). Cheers, Lars [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=849548
