Bug 247388 - F7 Live Install Leaves Bad Permissions in /var
Summary: F7 Live Install Leaves Bad Permissions in /var
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 243479
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: 7
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-07-08 18:47 UTC by Garry T. Williams
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:12 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2007-07-09 15:36:58 UTC
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Description Garry T. Williams 2007-07-08 18:47:36 UTC
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

Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2007-07-09 15:36:58 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 243479 ***


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