Lucid screwed some users after upgrade/unsolicited update

[Basil Chupin]

On 13/06/10 22:49, Steve Morris wrote:
> 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.

You haven't really tried, have you? :-)


> 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
>

BC

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