I disagree with closing this as “WORKSFORME”. Just because core Firefox
plastered over the problem does not mean it's not an issue for other
cases. I have at least one Firefox add-on that continues to display
unreadable text because this bug causes the CSS InfoBackground and
InfoText values in styl
The command is lowercase “chown”, without the “(1)”. The general syntax
would be “chown ”. You'll normally need
superuser privileges to change owners on system files and directories,
activated by adding the command “sudo” before the “chown” (separated by
a space).
The “(1)” refers to which sectio
^ Setting the owner of the /var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-
downloads/partial directory to “_apt” on my 16.04 box is what I did to
get rid of the error. I believe I've occasionally run into a few
similar messages about other APT “partial” directories scattered around
in /var, too; in those c
I thought it might be helpful to anyone still having this problem (where
the fix hasn't been backported yet) to mention that the workaround is
described in Bug #1607535 (essentially, delete the affected partial
download files in /var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-
downloads/partial/ and then try
I hit this today, and it absolutely infuriates me. Indeed, the questions
have either no valid answers or ask things I could not possibly know.
And I consider myself a reasonably experienced user. All I know is that
I tried to apply security updates and it told me something happened. It
withheld all
This happened to me, too. I installed Multi-Core System Monitor for just
a moment and noticed the steadily growing memory usage. Worse, removing
the applet did not stop the leak. The leak didn't stop until the next
system reboot (presumably restarting polkitd would have also worked, but
I didn't tr
I just now found a very similar message from the update-notifier
cronjob:
/etc/cron.daily/update-notifier-common:
Get:1
http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_20160407.1.orig.tar.gz
[27.0 MB]
Fetched 27.0 MB in 1min 11s (378 kB/s)
W: Can't drop privileges
For the Synaptic message complaining about
/var/cache/apt/archives/partial, setting the owner of that directory to
_apt seems to avoid it, based on my tests in a VirtualBox VM of Wily
upgraded to Xenial.
I haven't (yet) encountered an error complaining about
/root/.synaptic/[…]. It seems really bi
I was able to use this hook to get Ubuntu 15.10 installed and running
from a thin LVM volume in a VirtualBox VM.
However, the lvm2-monitor service seems wonky if started from the
initramfs, strange errors like:
--tpool: event registration failed: 2561:11
libdevmapper-event-lvm2thin.so dlopen fail
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