Lucid screwed some users after upgrade/unsolicited update

[Steve Morris]

On 13/06/10 23:09, Basil Chupin wrote:
> 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 have gone into the configuration options of kpackagekit several times 
and can't find any options to tell it to notify me of new updates but 
not to download them until I tell it too, or I run the updates through 
synaptic. If you know of somewhere else to look I would be grateful if 
you could tell me where the options are.

regards,
Steve

>
>    
>> 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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