At the debian bugtracker is also a bugreport about this: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=807948 It turned out that the user had manually set up /tmp which caused it to have the wrong permissions. I have not manually set up /tmp but on looking at it it has the permissions 0755 for root:root. Setting the permissions to 0777 does solve this issue. Since this installation is a bit old maybe it was just a migration issue. Maybe on installing apt a script should check if the permissions of /tmp are correct?
** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #807948 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=807948 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1524196 Title: Error on fetching several lists To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1524196/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
