[Bug 1732030] Re: 'apt update' dies with seccomp error

[ChristianEhrhardt]

On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 8:29 AM, Jimmy Olsen <mavask71 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Christian. I tried to run this command but it didnt work:
>
> marcos at marcos:~$ echo 'apt::sandbox::seccomp::allow { "socket" };' >
> /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99seccomp
> bash: /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99seccomp: Permission denied
>

The path this gets placed in is only writable by root.
So you either need to "sudo su" before you do the above.
Or you can use sudo to write with permissions through tee, like:

 $ echo 'apt::sandbox::seccomp::allow { "socket" };' | sudo tee
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99seccomp

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Title:
  'apt update' dies with seccomp error

Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in libvirt package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  $ apt-get update
  0% [Working]
   **** Seccomp prevented execution of syscall 0000000078 on architecture amd64 ****
  Reading package lists... Done
  E: Method mirror has died unexpectedly!
  E: Sub-process mirror returned an error code (31)

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
  Package: apt 1.6~alpha5
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-16.19-generic 4.13.4
  Uname: Linux 4.13.0-16-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl zcommon znvpair
  ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Mon Nov 13 23:10:57 2017
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US:en
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/zsh
  SourcePackage: apt
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2017-05-20 (177 days ago)

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