i was able to run into this "permission denied" problem with Ubuntu 14.04 i tried this: apt-get purge openntpd apparmor apt-get install openntpd apparmor and i even tried to set "rw" file rights for everybody...
let's do a wild guess some service has opened and locked (exclusive access) the file in question. and this service is not neccessarily having the char sequence "ntp" in its body. "ps fax | grep ntp" did not return anything that might be a server to me. trying: sudo lsof /etc/openntpd/ntpd.conf this line returned only a fuse-warning of probable incompletness to me - nothing else. even no report at all when using fuser instead of lsof. running "openntpd" with sudo from the command line creates the very well known permission error. checking this: sudo ls -l `which openntpd` return this: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Dez 24 2013 /usr/sbin/openntpd -> ntpd deleting the symlink and retrying the partial installation suddenly seems to succeed. is the uninstall/install having a problem with a leftover symlink pointing to ntpd? doing a re-install from that state... failed again! and the symlink got recreated. stopping here - feeling puzzled... but it looks like the openntpd package itself is the problem. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/458061 Title: openntpd no longer installs -/etc/openntpd/ntpd.conf: Permission denied To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openntpd/+bug/458061/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
