[Bug 1761997] Re: /var/run needs mode 777 in bionic

[Brian Murray]

** Description changed:

- I saw some odd behaviour of screen during the upgrade from Xenial to
- Bionic using do-release-upgrade. I was trying to use screen to reattach
- to an upgrade process that had gone sideways during a router daemon
- upgrade (duh). But I was told that the permissions on /run/screen needed
- to be 777. Does the bionic version of screen have that as a requirement?
- And if so, perhaps do-release-upgrade should set those permissions in
- anticipation of the upgrade process so that screen works with both old
- and new versions.
+ [Test Case]
+ 1) have an Ubuntu 16.04
+ 2) rm /etc/cron.daily/mlocate (this'll ensure you get a conffile prompt)
+ 3) ssh to Ubuntu 16.04 system so the release upgrade is run in screen
+ 4) run do-release-upgrade -d
+ 5) wait for the conffile prompt from mlocate
+ 6) ssh to the Ubuntu 16.04 system being upgraded
+ 7) sudo -i
+ 8) run screen -rd
+ 
+ With the version of screen in the release pocket you'll receive the
+ following error:
+ 
+ root at clean-xenial-amd64:~# screen -rd
+ Directory '/run/screen' must have mode 777.
+ 
+ [Original Description]
+ I saw some odd behaviour of screen during the upgrade from Xenial to Bionic using do-release-upgrade. I was trying to use screen to reattach to an upgrade process that had gone sideways during a router daemon upgrade (duh). But I was told that the permissions on /run/screen needed to be 777. Does the bionic version of screen have that as a requirement? And if so, perhaps do-release-upgrade should set those permissions in anticipation of the upgrade process so that screen works with both old and new versions.

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Title:
  /var/run needs mode 777 in bionic

Status in screen package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  [Test Case]
  1) have an Ubuntu 16.04
  2) rm /etc/cron.daily/mlocate (this'll ensure you get a conffile prompt)
  3) ssh to Ubuntu 16.04 system so the release upgrade is run in screen
  4) run do-release-upgrade -d
  5) wait for the conffile prompt from mlocate
  6) ssh to the Ubuntu 16.04 system being upgraded
  7) sudo -i
  8) run screen -rd

  With the version of screen in the release pocket you'll receive the
  following error:

  root at clean-xenial-amd64:~# screen -rd
  Directory '/run/screen' must have mode 777.

  [Original Description]
  I saw some odd behaviour of screen during the upgrade from Xenial to Bionic using do-release-upgrade. I was trying to use screen to reattach to an upgrade process that had gone sideways during a router daemon upgrade (duh). But I was told that the permissions on /run/screen needed to be 777. Does the bionic version of screen have that as a requirement? And if so, perhaps do-release-upgrade should set those permissions in anticipation of the upgrade process so that screen works with both old and new versions.

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