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Bug#1110740: upgrade-reports: spamassassin upgrade configure step fails on Bookworm->Trixie upgrade

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Package: upgrade-reports
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: Noah Meyerhans <noahm@debian.org> 

My previous release is: Bookworm
I am upgrading to: Trixie
Archive date: Sun, 10 Aug 2025 15:11:51 +0000
Upgrade date: 2025-08-10
uname -a before upgrade: Don’t have this, but it was the stock Bookworm kernel.
uname -a after upgrade: Linux rocinante 6.12.38+deb13-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.12.38-1 (2025-07-16) x86_64 GNU/Linux
Method: apt full-upgrade

Contents of /etc/apt/sources.list:

# Modernized from /etc/apt/sources.list
Types: deb
URIs: https://deb.debian.org/debian/
Suites: trixie
Components: main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg

# Modernized from /etc/apt/sources.list
Types: deb
URIs: https://security.debian.org/debian-security/
Suites: trixie-security
Components: main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg

# Modernized from /etc/apt/sources.list
Types: deb
URIs: https://deb.debian.org/debian/
Suites: trixie-updates
Components: main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg


- Were there any non-Debian packages installed before the upgrade?  If
  so, what were they?

All packages came from Debian archives.

- Was the system pre-update a 'pure' system only containing packages
  from the previous release? If not, which packages were not from that
  release?

Latest emacs from bookworm-backports. Otherise stock Bookworm.

- Did any packages fail to upgrade?

spamassassin.

- Were there any problems with the system after upgrading?

No.

Further Comments/Problems:

During an upgrade from Bookworm to Trixie, the installation of the
Trixie version of Spamassassin failed with the following error:

# dpkg --configure -a
Setting up spamassassin (4.0.1-5) ...
mktemp: failed to create file via template ‘/tmp/user/0/tmp.XXXXXXXXXX.r000.tgz’: Permission denied
dpkg: error processing package spamassassin (--configure):
 installed spamassassin package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1

Further	investigation revealed that this machine was not using tmpfs &
mktemp was trying to create a file inside /tmp/user/0 (which already
existed) as the user debian-spamd. Since /tmp/user/0 has permissions

  drwx------ 3 root root 120 Aug 10 17:04 0

this obviously fails. Making /tmp/user/0 (temporarily) world rwx
allows the configuration of spamassassin to complete & the upgrade
to Trixie to finish.

cheers, Phil

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Bug#1110740: upgrade-reports: spamassassin upgrade configure step fails on Bookworm->Trixie upgrade Phil Armstrong <phil@kantaka.co.uk> - 2025-08-10 18:50 +0200

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