[Bug 701666] Re: Filesystem permissions messed (0777) after update

[Peter Thoemmes]

Hi Fabio,

update-manager is fine,

Thx,
Peter


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Title:
  Filesystem permissions messed (0777) after update

Status in “update-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Since December 2010 I had the problem 3 times on my Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
  (amd64). I agree to install updates, proposed by the update manager.
  After the installation is finished, I am asked to reboot the machine.
  Right after the restart of the machine all the file perms are set to
  0777, recursively! So this of course affects /usr and /lib, meaning no
  setuid flag is set anymore and no 'sudo' is possible anymore. Booting
  from a rescue CD and adjusting the perms will be overwritten during
  the next startup. My machine runs the Linux system on a separate SATA
  disk on ext3. The data is on a 2 disk software RAID (mirror 'md0'
  using 'mdadm') mounted during startup. I saw several people having the
  same problem since about one year, but obviously it applies only to a
  special setup. On my second box, which is almost the same (almost a
  clone of the first), the problem never occurred. But I can reproduce
  the problem easily: simply apply the latest update (say the one of
  2011-01-10) and restart and...'kawumm'.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: update-notifier 0.99.3
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-27.49-generic 2.6.32.26+drm33.12
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-27-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Tue Jan 11 21:47:46 2011
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/update-notifier
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
   LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: update-notifier
  XsessionErrors: (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2152): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed

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