Lucid screwed some users after upgrade/unsolicited update

[Basil Chupin]

On 15/06/10 20:40, Steve Morris wrote:
> On 15/06/10 14:43, Basil Chupin wrote:
>> 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
>>
> Thankyou. I had seen this option but I don't have it active so I 
> assumed this was not it as with the option to check disabled it should 
> not even be checking for updates let alone installing them without 
> checking for authority. I am assuming the upper half of this tab does 
> not override the checking option and that its specification is which 
> types of updates I want checked, although having said this I enabled 
> the checking  and rebooted, and kpackagekit still downloaded and 
> installed security updates anyway. So it looks like this process 
> doesn't work properly and needs rewriting.

Occasionally an app. does not install correctly - rare but it does 
happen. Why not uninstall the packagekit and then re-install it and see 
if it now workd correctly. If not then it is time to submit a bug report.

BC

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