On 2017-06-19 11:03 -0700, Jim McCloskey wrote: > Sven Joachim (svenj...@gmx.de) wrote: > > |> On my system, only /var/lib/apt/lists/partial is owned by > |> the _apt user, and it's not world-readable: > > |> All the regular files in /var/lib/apt/lists are owned by > |> root:root and have standard 0644 permissions > > Thank you. How strange. I just reverted my own earlier change so that > the ownerships and permissions are as you describe in your > reply. /var/lib/apt/lists/ and the files within it are owned by > root:root and: > > # ls -ld /var/lib/apt/lists/partial > drwx------ 2 _apt root 20480 > Jun15:52 /var/lib/apt/lists/partial > > and the warning/issue immediately returned: > > Reading package lists... Done > W: Download is performed unsandboxed as root as file > '/var/lib/apt/lists/partial/deb.debian.org_debian_dists_stretch_InRelease' > couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission > denied)
Are /var/lib/apt/lists/ and its parent directories world-readable and world-executable? Cheers, Sven