Package: debconf Version: 1.5.89 Severity: normal I am writing SE Linux policy for the needrestart utility which runs the debconf frontend program.
When it runs I see the following error message: debconf: DbDriver "templatedb": could not write /var/cache/debconf/templates.dat-new: Permission denied Firstly due to it's nature needrestart won't have anything to write to the templates.dat file. Next here is an extract from the strace output: str.9334:openat(AT_FDCWD, "/var/cache/debconf/templates.dat", O_RDWR|O_CLOEXEC) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) str.9334:openat(AT_FDCWD, "/var/cache/debconf/templates.dat", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 4 So when it reads the data it sees that RDWR access isn't allowed, opens it read-only and doesn't report this as an error. So by then it should know that writing is inappropriate as well as being unneeded and not report it as a problem. -- System Information: Debian Release: trixie/sid Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 6.12.6-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_AU:en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: unable to detect debconf depends on no packages. Versions of packages debconf recommends: ii apt 2.9.19 ii apt-utils 2.9.19 ii debconf-i18n 1.5.89 Versions of packages debconf suggests: pn debconf-doc <none> pn debconf-kde-helper <none> pn debconf-utils <none> pn libgtk3-perl <none> pn libnet-ldap-perl <none> pn libterm-readline-gnu-perl <none> ii perl 5.40.0-8 ii whiptail 0.52.24-4 -- debconf-show failed
