Description of problem: Many directories in /var are installed with incorrect owners. This leads to multiple problems immediately after first boot. See bug #243482 for example. The sendmail client daemon fails to start. The root user's mail from cron isn't delivered anywhere. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): F7 Live CD How reproducible: The problem seems to be hardware specific. I have reproduced it on a Dell Latitude 610 and a Sony Vaio FS640/W. I cannot reproduce it on a Dell E520. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install from Live CD 2. 3. Actual results: hald and sendmail fail to start at first (and subsequent) boots. Expected results: Services start. Additional info: Work-around: chown haldaemon:haldaemon /var/cache/hald chown smmsp:smmsp /var/spool/clientmqueue chown root:mail /var/spool/{mail,mqueue} chown rpm:rpm /var/spool/repackage chown torrent:torrent /var/spool/bittorrent chgrp mail /var/spool/mail/* chgrp lock /var/lock chown torrent:torrent /var/log/bittorrent (All of the above directories and files were originally root:root owned instead of their correct owners.) /etc/init.d/haldaemon stop /etc/init.d/haldaemon start /etc/init.d/senmail stop /etc/init.d/senmail start
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 243479 ***