[Bug 1069350] Re: suspicious /.rpmdb root directory

[Lekensteyn]

Looks like DKMS (via kernel post-install hook, via dpkg, via apt-get) is
responsible for this:

root     18414  0.0  0.0  27848  3864 pts/12   S+   22:35   0:00 /usr/bin/perl /var/lib/dpkg/info/linux-image-3.13.0-8-generic.postinst configure 3.13.0-8.27
root     18422  0.0  0.0   4332   616 pts/12   S+   22:35   0:00 run-parts --verbose --exit-on-error --arg=3.13.0-8-generic --arg=/boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-8-generic /etc/kernel/postinst.d
root     18437  0.0  0.0   4428   792 pts/12   S+   22:35   0:00 /bin/sh /usr/lib/dkms/dkms_autoinstaller start 3.13.0-8-generic
root     18440  1.0  0.0  15256  2764 pts/12   S+   22:35   0:00 /bin/bash /usr/sbin/dkms autoinstall --kernelver 3.13.0-8-generic
root     18444  0.0  0.0  15256  1760 pts/12   S+   22:35   0:00 /bin/bash /usr/sbin/dkms autoinstall --kernelver 3.13.0-8-generic
root     18445  0.0  0.0  14064  1192 pts/12   S+   22:35   0:00 /bin/bash /usr/bin/rpm -qf /lib/modules/3.13.0-8-generic

The attached patch fixes DKMS to not call rpm to determine the
architecture since that is quite useless.

** Patch added: "Disables RPM call for DKMS"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rpm/+bug/1069350/+attachment/3990223/+files/disable-rpm.patch

** Also affects: dkms (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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Title:
  suspicious /.rpmdb root directory

Status in rpm package manager:
  Opinion
Status in “dkms” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “rpm” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I have the following directory structure on my system which conflicts
  to the LSB standard:

  ls -ld /.rpmdb/{,*}
  drwxr-xr-x 2 root root     4096 Okt 21  2011 /.rpmdb/
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root     8192 Okt 21  2011 /.rpmdb/Basenames
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root     8192 Okt 21  2011 /.rpmdb/Conflictname
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root    24576 Apr 27 00:52 /.rpmdb/__db.001
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  4096000 Apr 27 00:52 /.rpmdb/__db.002
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 83894272 Apr 27 00:52 /.rpmdb/__db.003
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   811008 Apr 27 00:52 /.rpmdb/__db.004
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root     8192 Okt 21  2011 /.rpmdb/Dirnames
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root     8192 Okt 21  2011 /.rpmdb/Group
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root     8192 Okt 21  2011 /.rpmdb/Installtid
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root     8192 Okt 21  2011 /.rpmdb/Name
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root     8192 Okt 21  2011 /.rpmdb/Obsoletename
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root    12288 Okt 21  2011 /.rpmdb/Packages
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root     8192 Okt 21  2011 /.rpmdb/Providename
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root     8192 Okt 21  2011 /.rpmdb/Requirename
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root     8192 Okt 21  2011 /.rpmdb/Sha1header
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root     8192 Okt 21  2011 /.rpmdb/Sigmd5
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root     8192 Okt 21  2011 /.rpmdb/Triggername

  Afaik, this directory belongs to rpm or alien. Maybe it appears
  because of a lack of environment variables (e.g. $HOME not set) in
  particular situations.

  As you can see in the listing, the directory is not used frequently,
  but I'm not sure if it's save to delete it. Maybe the problem is
  already solved in the current version of ubuntu (at last the time the
  files were touched I was running Ubuntu 11.10), but I think it's
  important to have this bug registered so other users can find it.
  There is an active thread about it at ubuntuforums:
  http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1864423

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