This bug was fixed in the package apt - 1.4~beta3
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apt (1.4~beta3) unstable; urgency=medium
[ Lukasz Kawczynski ]
* Honour Acquire::ForceIPv4/6 in the https transport
[ David Kalnischkies ]
* reword "Can't drop priv" warning message (Closes: #813786) (LP: #1522675)
* let {dsc,tar,diff}-only implicitly enable download-only
* remove needless fork() in apt-get source
* default to --no-check for dpkg-source call (Closes: 724744)
* warn if clearsigned file has ignored content parts
* ensure generation of valid EDSP error stanzas
* add --indep-only for build-dep command (Closes: #845775)
* allow default build-essentials to be overridden
* expand -f to --fix-broken in error messages.
Thanks to Kristian Glass for initial patch! (Closes: #709092)
* separating state variables regarding server/request (Closes: #440057)
* fix minimum pkgs option for dpkg --recursive usage
* allow warning generation for non-whitelisted options
[ Oriol Debian ]
* Catalan program translation update (Closes: #846514)
[ Frans Spiesschaert ]
* Dutch manpages translation update (Closes: #849235)
[ Niels Thykier ]
* ParseDepends: Support passing the desired architecture (Closes: #845969)
-- Julian Andres Klode <j...@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jan 2017 20:50:01
+0100
** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Fix Released
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1522675
Title:
Needless scary warning: Can't drop privileges for downloading : _apt
user not allowed
Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in dpkg package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Status in apt package in Debian:
Fix Released
Status in synaptic package in Debian:
New
Bug description:
Recently we got new versions for synaptic 0.82+build1 & apt 1.1.3, but
now get that error when installing/upgrading some packages:
Setting up libc6-dbg:amd64 (2.21-0ubuntu5) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.21-0ubuntu5) ...
W: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file
'/root/.synaptic/tmp//tmp_cl' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. -
pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied)
From nautilus, i'm seeing a /root/ folder locked (x on its icon) and
the folder is empty (no /.synaptic/ sub-folder or file), so the above
error.
oem@u64:~$ ls -l .synaptic
total 4
-rw-rw-r-- 1 oem oem 0 Aug 25 11:19 options
-rw-rw-r-- 1 oem oem 236 Aug 25 11:19 synaptic.conf
oem@u64:~$ ls -l /var/lib/apt/lists/
....
-rw-r----- 1 root root 0 Sep 20 06:36 lock
drwx------ 2 _apt root 16384 Sep 24 15:25 partial
......
oem@u64:~$ sudo ls -l /var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/
.....
drwxr-xr-x 2 _apt root 4096 Sep 22 23:33 partial
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: synaptic 0.82+build1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.3.0-1.10-generic 4.3.0
Uname: Linux 4.3.0-1-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.19.2-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Fri Dec 4 05:23:25 2015
SourcePackage: synaptic
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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