I noticed this missing permission when using a custom profile for pidgin including <abstractions/aspell>. The kern.log error looks like this :
Jan 17 13:46:21 simon-laptop kernel: [117850.427005] type=1400 audit(1326825981.598:128): apparmor="DENIED" operation="open" parent=1 profile="/usr/bin/pidgin" name="/home/simon/.aspell.en.prepl" pid=11333 comm="pidgin" requested_mask="wc" denied_mask="wc" fsuid=1000 ouid=1000 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/917859 Title: abstractions/aspell should authorize write access to ~/.aspell.*.{pws,prepl} To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apparmor/+bug/917859/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs