Lucid screwed some users after upgrade/unsolicited update

[Steve Morris]

On 09/06/10 00:57, Alvin wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 June 2010 22:37:34 Steve Morris wrote:
>    
>> I used the alternate cd to upgrade from Karmic to Lucid and yesterday
>> morning kpackagekit did a package update without telling me it was doing
>> it, even though on Karmic I had explicitly disabled this. A second of
>> the 5 users defined to my system tried to logon yesterday and had all
>> sorts of problems.
>> First they were required to change their password, even though in Karmic
>> password changing was disabled, why?
>> Secondly, for the user who tried to logon her home directory ownership
>> had been changed to root, plus her's and 2 other users uid had been
>> changed or ownership had been stuffed such that, her home directory
>> contents were owned by a second user, the second users home directory
>> and contents were owned by a third user and, the third users home
>> directory and contents were owned by the first user. The environment for
>> the other 2 users was unchanged. What is happening here and why?
>> Also, I suspect this was caused by yesterday mornings unsolicited
>> update, Konsole will now no longer run complaining of an issue with
>> /bin/bash. What caused this and how do I remedy this (I assume its a
>> case of uninstalling/reinstalling its package, but which one)?
>> The other question this raises is, how do I prevent this from happening
>> again in the future?
>>      
> I have no idea about what happened to you. Did you find something out in the
> meantime?
>    
I still have no idea why the uids of the users were changed, but since 
changing them back they haven't been altered.
> Aside from security updates, when unattended-upgrades is installed, there
> should be no automatic updates.
> I'm using aptitude instead of kpackagekit, but kpackagekit is installed and I
> have never known it to do anything without permission.
>
>    
Kpackagekit is still downloading and installing updates even though I 
haven't asked it to, and I can't find any options to turn it off. I also 
don't use kpagckagekit, I use synaptic for most of my installs and 
occasionally apt-get.

After getting these issues I upgraded my motherboard, cpu, memory, video 
card and dvd burners and, of the four OS's I have installed Ubuntu was 
the only one that did not require a re-install to keep working, so I was 
grateful for that.

regards,
Steve

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