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

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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.

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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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