I ran into the same problem after somebody uninstalled logcheck and I re-installed it.
It turned out that the ownership of /var/lock/logcheck where root:root - sudo chown logcheck:logcheck /var/lock/logcheck solved it. I see that there already is a check for the permissions in the postinst which (as far as I can see) *should* have fixed the permissions and ownership there. When re-installing the logcheck package (which was previously removed, but not purged), dpkg will pass the version number of the most recently configured version [1] - which in this case would be 1.2.69. And since 1.2.69 >= 1.2.39, the chown+chmod in postinst is bypassed... I think that /var/lock/logcheck becamed owned by root:root upon reinstallation, as the .deb ships with it as root:root (but I have not been able to verify that). I think it would be sensible to do one (or both?) of: * chown+chmod unconditionally in postinst * make the ownership of /var/lock/logcheck logcheck:logcheck in the .deb Hope this helps [1] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-maintainerscripts.html#s-configdetails -- Karl E. Jørgensen http://www.jorgensen.org.uk http://karl.jorgensen.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
