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Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye. Canonicalization of /var/log/journal.

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>From my experience gnome-disks automatically chowns / to the executing user when creating a filesystem.
But I don't think Peter did that.
I'd rather say it's been caused by some installation script, those are usually buggy when it comes to file ownership.
Peter, did you install anything via a .run or .sh file?

Nils

On Wed, 29 Sep 2021 22:35:35 -0500
David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:

> On Wed 29 Sep 2021 at 16:46:14 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 07:05:37AM -0700, peter@easthope.ca wrote:
> > >     From: Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org>
> > >     Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 13:41:05 -0400
> > > > What does it look like?
> > > > 
> > > > ls -ld / /var /var/log /var/log/journal
> > > 
> > > root@joule:/# ls -ld / /var /var/log
> > > drwxr-xr-x 18 peter peter 4096 Sep 27 18:00 /
> > > drwxr-xr-x 11 root  root  4096 Nov  3  2020 /var
> > > drwxr-xr-x 10 root  root  4096 Sep 29 06:39 /var/log
> > 
> > The ownership of the / directory is wrong.  It should be root:root,
> > not peter:peter.
> > 
> > chown root:root /
> > 
> > Everything else looks OK at the moment.
> 
> Similar to https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2021/07/msg00907.html
> but even worse (there, it was only group ownership that was wrong).
> It does appear that there's a subset of people who immediately
> recognise this warning message as meaning "wrong ownership",
> Greg (possibly), Kushal and of course Poettering:
> 
> https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/11282
> 
> Would it be sensible for the message to actually mention ownership,
> or can it apply to very different circumstances (beyond permissions,
> that is)? I've failed to find any other cause, but see a lot of
> people messing up their ownership.
> 
> Is this being done by people, say, untarring archives as root, or
> are there some buggy programs out there? One person claimed it
> happened through formatting a partition with some gnome program.
> Is that likely?
> 
> Cheers,
> David.
> 


-- 
Nils <tuxifan@posteo.de>

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Upgrading buster => bullseye.  Canonicalization of /var/log/journal. peter@easthope.ca - 2021-09-28 19:10 +0200
  Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye.  Canonicalization of /var/log/journal. Nils <tuxifan@posteo.de> - 2021-09-28 19:40 +0200
    Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye. Canonicalization of /var/log/journal. peter@easthope.ca - 2021-09-29 22:30 +0200
      Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye. Canonicalization of  /var/log/journal. Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2021-09-30 03:30 +0200
  Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye.  Canonicalization of  /var/log/journal. Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-09-28 19:50 +0200
    Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye. Canonicalization of /var/log/journal. peter@easthope.ca - 2021-09-29 22:30 +0200
      Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye. Canonicalization of  /var/log/journal. Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-09-29 22:50 +0200
        Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye. Canonicalization of  /var/log/journal. David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-09-30 05:40 +0200
          Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye. Canonicalization of  /var/log/journal. Nils <tuxifan@posteo.de> - 2021-09-30 06:00 +0200
          Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye. Canonicalization of  /var/log/journal. Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-09-30 13:20 +0200
          Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye. Canonicalization of  /var/log/journal. Kushal Kumaran <kushal@locationd.net> - 2021-10-02 07:10 +0200
      Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye. Canonicalization of  /var/log/journal. Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-10-02 09:50 +0200
  Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye.  Canonicalization of  /var/log/journal. "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-09-28 20:40 +0200
    Re: Upgrading buster => bullseye.  Canonicalization of  /var/log/journal. Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-09-28 20:50 +0200

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