On Mon Aug 22, 2022 at 14:53:57 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Control: severity -1 important > > Adam Lackorzynski <a...@os.inf.tu-dresden.de> writes: > > > I had the same issue. Turned out my personal .emacs.d/eln-cache > > directory and its folders belonged to root: > > > $ ls -la $HOME/.emacs.d/eln-cache > > total 16 > > drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Aug 21 19:32 . > > drwx------ 4 adam users 4096 Aug 19 19:43 .. > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 21 19:32 28.1-20961986 > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 19 19:43 28.1-aa5da5cc > > > chown'ing it to me fixed it. > > Oh, good catch! The same thing was true of mine. > > I think the dates were when I upgraded Emacs. Let me take a guess: are > you also old-school and use su from a regular user account when installing > new packages? HOME gets overridden by su, but LOGNAME and USER do not, > and I suspect something in Emacs is deciding where to write files based on > USER, and the installation process of emacs-lucid creates the eln-cache > directory for some reason.
Indeed, yes. I'd follow the lines here that a Debian package should ensure that content generated for global use (which I assume the package positinst is generating) shall be in a location accessible for everyone. > I'm downgrading the severity of this bug because I suspect the average > user using sudo may not run into it (although the maintainer should feel > free to raise the severity again if they disagree). If I'm right, the > best place to solve the problem may be in the Debian maintainer scripts, > overwriting USER (and possibly LOGNAME, not sure if it matters) to some > safe value like root while performing the installation. This may also be > necessary to do when installing Emacs add-on packges; I'm not sure. > > I've removed the directory with the wrong ownership and upgraded again > with USER and LOGNAME set to root, and now everything works fine. (Well, > my laptop gets extremely hot the first time I start the new Emacs, but I > assume that's expected for the new compilation system.) > > -- > Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> Adam
