[Bug 2016145] Re: Wrong ownership for /var/lib/libuuid/

[Mauricio Faria de Oliveira]

Thanks for reporting this bug!

Could not reproduce with Kinetic (22.10) or Lunar (23.04).

Kinetic will EOL soon. Can you reproduce this with Lunar?

Thanks!


$ lsb_release -cs
No LSB modules are available.
lunar

$ uuidgen -t
039c7806-20ae-11ee-ba46-54e1ad759c00

...

$ lsb_release -cs
kinetic

$ uuidgen -t
1a838b2c-20ae-11ee-8bfa-335c39eef75c

$ dpkg -s uuid-runtime | grep Version:
Version: 2.38-4ubuntu1

$ ls -ld /var/lib/libuuid
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May  3  2022 /var/lib/libuuid


** Changed in: util-linux (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Foundations Bugs, which is subscribed to util-linux in Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2016145

Title:
  Wrong ownership for /var/lib/libuuid/

Status in util-linux package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Ubuntu 22.10, uuid-runtime version 2.38-4ubuntu1

  I noticed that if I ran "uuidgen -t" then I would get a line like this
  in my system logs: "uuidd: failed to open/lock clock counter"

  Using strace I saw that the reason was a lack of permission to write
  to "/var/lib/libuuid/clock.txt".  The directory "/var/lib/libuuid/" is
  owned by root, however "uuidd" is run as a systemd service
  (uuidd.service) as user "uuidd".  This fixed it: "sudo chown
  uuidd:uuidd /var/lib/libuuid/".

  So I think the uuid-runtime package should ensure that
  "/var/lib/libuuid" is owned by "uuid".

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/util-linux/+bug/2016145/+subscriptions