Lucid screwed some users after upgrade/unsolicited update

[Basil Chupin]

On 15/06/10 07:56, Steve Morris wrote:
> 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.



If you are really desperate then you can always simply uninstall the 
kpackagekit app. itself.

But there is, under Sources for the repos, the menu where you configure 
what you want kpackage to do. Have you looked there?

BC

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