Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: mount
I have a amd64 gutsy updated daily from a tribe5 install. Today, I was unable
to update.
The updater returns this popup error:
E: /var/cache/apt/archives/mount_2.13-8ubuntu1_amd64.deb: unable to
stat `./usr/share/man/man8/umount.8.gz' (which I was about to install)
and this is in the details tab:
Extracting templates from packages: 100%
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 229773 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace mount 2.13-6ubuntu1 (using
.../mount_2.13-8ubuntu1_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement mount ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/mount_2.13-8ubuntu1_amd64.deb
(--unpack):
unable to stat `./usr/share/man/man8/umount.8.gz' (which I was about to
install): Permission denied
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/mount_2.13-8ubuntu1_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Aptitude gives the same error. When I try to take a look at the
offending file, something is awry:
sudo -i
root# ls -las /usr/share/man/man8/umount.8.gz
ls: /usr/share/man/man8/umount.8.gz: Permission denied
root# ls -las /usr/share/man/man8/|grep umount
? ?--------- ? ? ? ? ?
/usr/share/man/man8/umount.8.gz
Note the odd permisions and owner. all other files look fine, but the
umount.8.gz file is odd:
<snip>
4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3107 2007-05-18 06:05 useradd.8.gz
4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1468 2007-05-18 06:05 userdel.8.gz
4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1921 2007-05-18 06:05 usermod.8.gz
4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 833 2007-10-01 05:51 usplash.8.gz
4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1211 2007-10-01 05:51 usplash_write.8.gz
? ?--------- ? ? ? ? ?
/usr/share/man/man8/umount.8.gz
4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1396 2007-09-03 12:39 v4l-conf.8.gz
4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 635 2007-09-16 08:47 validlocale.8.gz
4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2380 2007-08-16 11:42 verify.8postfix.gz
4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 46 2007-10-03 00:27 vidmode.8.gz
<snip>
It looks like the file is refered to as
"/usr/share/man/man8/umount.8.gz" instead of "umount.8.gz" in the
/usr/share/man/man8/ directory, as it should be.
Also, there seems to be an errent "./" at the begining of the file.
I don't know how to escape a "/" in the filename (quoting or
backslashing don't work, so I can't fix this.
root# cd /usr/share/man/man8/
root:/usr/share/man/man8# chmod a+rwx /usr/share/man/man8/umount.8.gz
chmod: cannot access `/usr/share/man/man8/umount.8.gz': Permission denied
root:/usr/share/man/man8# chmod a+rwx "/usr/share/man/man8/umount.8.gz"
chmod: cannot access `/usr/share/man/man8/umount.8.gz': Permission denied
root:/usr/share/man/man8# chmod a+rwx \/usr\/share\/man\/man8\/umount.8.gz
chmod: cannot access `/usr/share/man/man8/umount.8.gz': Permission denied
root:/usr/share/man/man8# chown root:root /usr/share/man/man8/umount.8.gz
chown: cannot access `/usr/share/man/man8/umount.8.gz': Permission denied
I think this filename and the permisions need to be fixed in the
mount_2.13-8ubuntu1_amd64.deb package.
** Affects: util-linux (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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can't update mount due to odd file perms of umount man page
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/148626
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