Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.1.5-3 Severity: normal On my system, users' home directories are mounted by NFS and aren't accessible by root. This seems to upset aptitude if I run "aptitude update" when su'ed to root in my home directory:
wraith:/home/bjh21# aptitude update Hit http://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk testing Release.gpg Hit http://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk testing Release Hit http://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk testing/main Packages/DiffIndex Hit http://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk testing/contrib Packages/DiffIndex Hit http://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk testing/non-free Packages/DiffIndex E: Unable to change to /home/bjh21/ - chdir (13: Permission denied) E: Couldn't clean out list directories I can't see that aptitude has any reason to chdir into my home directory, so it really shouldn't fail when that turns out to be impossible. >From gdb, it looks like the failing call to chdir comes from pkgAcquire::Clean(std::string). I've not looked at the source to see how easy it would be to fix. -- Package-specific info: aptitude 0.6.1.5 compiled at Mar 12 2010 09:52:06 Compiler: g++ 4.4.3 Compiled against: apt version 4.8.0 NCurses version 5.7 libsigc++ version: 2.2.4.2 Ept support enabled. Gtk+ support disabled. Current library versions: NCurses version: ncurses 5.7.20100313 cwidget version: 0.5.16 Apt version: 4.8.0 linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000) libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6.so.4.8 => /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6.so.4.8 (0xb7e63000) libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/libncursesw.so.5 (0xb7e1d000) liblog4cxx.so.10 => /usr/lib/liblog4cxx.so.10 (0xb7c77000) libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0xb7c71000) libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0xb7bb1000) libept.so.0 => /usr/lib/libept.so.0 (0xb7b3d000) libxapian.so.15 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.15 (0xb79ed000) libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0xb79d9000) libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsqlite3.so.0 (0xb7955000) libboost_iostreams.so.1.40.0 => /usr/lib/libboost_iostreams.so.1.40.0 (0xb794a000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xb7930000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb783b000) libm.so.6 => /lib/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xb7815000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb77f7000) libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb76b0000) libutil.so.1 => /lib/i686/cmov/libutil.so.1 (0xb76ac000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb76a7000) libaprutil-1.so.0 => /usr/lib/libaprutil-1.so.0 (0xb7687000) libdb-4.8.so => /usr/lib/libdb-4.8.so (0xb7521000) libapr-1.so.0 => /usr/lib/libapr-1.so.0 (0xb74f3000) libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/libbz2.so.1.0 (0xb74e2000) librt.so.1 => /lib/i686/cmov/librt.so.1 (0xb74d8000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f40000) libuuid.so.1 => /lib/libuuid.so.1 (0xb74d4000) libcrypt.so.1 => /lib/i686/cmov/libcrypt.so.1 (0xb74a2000) libexpat.so.1 => /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1 (0xb747c000) Terminal: xterm $DISPLAY is set. `which aptitude`: /usr/bin/aptitude aptitude version information: aptitude linkage: -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.27.9 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.9 0.7.25.3 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii libboost-iostreams1.40. 1.40.0-6+b1 Boost.Iostreams Library ii libc6 2.10.2-9 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libcwidget3 0.5.16-3 high-level terminal interface libr ii libept0 0.5.30 High-level library for managing De ii libgcc1 1:4.4.4-1 GCC support library ii liblog4cxx10 0.10.0-1.1 A logging library for C++ ii libncursesw5 5.7+20100313-2 shared libraries for terminal hand ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.2.4.2-1 type-safe Signal Framework for C++ ii libsqlite3-0 3.6.23.1-2 SQLite 3 shared library ii libstdc++6 4.4.4-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libxapian15 1.0.20-2 Search engine library ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime Versions of packages aptitude recommends: ii apt-xapian-index 0.30 maintenance tools for a Xapian ind pn aptitude-doc-en | aptitude-do <none> (no description available) ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output ii sensible-utils 0.0.4 Utilities for sensible alternative Versions of packages aptitude suggests: pn debtags <none> (no description available) pn tasksel <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
