Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.11-1 With apt 1.1~exp3 from Debian Experimental installed, aptitude is no more able to show downloaded changelogs temporarily when being called as root:
# aptitude changelog dh-autoreconf Err Changelog of dh-autoreconf E: Changelog download failed: Could not open file /tmp/aptitude-root.16926:DkJnDf/aptitudeDownloaddH=t5-:ju5CZ9P,wwc211hbduMMVy5CW - open (13: Permission denied) [IP: 185.31.17.185 80] Err Changelog of dh-autoreconf E: Changelog download failed: Could not open file /tmp/aptitude-root.16926:DkJnDf/aptitudeDownloady=26TywAuyLtIgj3:oY-p6PB27S7j,xd - open (13: Permission denied) [IP: 185.31.17.184 80] E: Couldn't find a changelog for dh-autoreconf # Happens in interactive mode, too, when pressing Shift-C. The error message is then shown in the status line. It still works fine as non-root user, though: $ aptitude changelog dh-autoreconf Get: Changelog of dh-autoreconf $ Also "apt-get changelog dh-autoreconf" works fine, so this is not a general issue in APT. Reason is very likely that /tmp/aptitude-root.16926:DkJnDf/ belongs to root and is only readable and writable by root while the downloading backend likely runs under the new "_apt" user: # ls -la /tmp/aptitude-root.16926:DkJnDf/ total 0 drwx------ 2 root root 40 Sep 25 17:46 . drwxrwxrwt 59 root root 1920 Sep 25 18:12 .. # -- Package-specific info:
Terminal: eterm-color $DISPLAY is set. which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude aptitude version information: aptitude 0.6.11 compiled at Jun 9 2014 20:46:57 Compiler: g++ 4.8.3 Compiled against: apt version 4.12.0 NCurses version 5.9 libsigc++ version: 2.2.11 Gtk+ support disabled. Qt support disabled. Current library versions: NCurses version: ncurses 5.9.20140913 cwidget version: 0.5.17 Apt version: 4.12.0 aptitude linkage: linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fff19d3d000) libapt-pkg.so.4.12 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12 (0x00007f48d41b3000) libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007f48d3f7d000) libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0x00007f48d3d52000) libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f48d3b4d000) libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007f48d3846000) libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007f48d3580000) libboost_iostreams.so.1.55.0 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libboost_iostreams.so.1.55.0 (0x00007f48d3368000) libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.22 (0x00007f48d2f53000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f48d2d35000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f48d2a2a000) libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f48d2729000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f48d2512000) libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f48d216a000) libutil.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1 (0x00007f48d1f67000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f48d1d62000) libz.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0x00007f48d1b47000) libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007f48d1937000) liblzma.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblzma.so.5 (0x00007f48d1713000) librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007f48d150b000) libuuid.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f48d1305000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f48d4b60000)
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