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ammon

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Registered: 2008-12-11

Posts: 413

GDM 2.28.1 - new update

I have just runned pacman -Syu and while instaling new gdm this showed up:

(10/18) upgrading gdm                               [##################################################################################################] 100%
warning: directory permissions differ on var/run/gdm/
filesystem: 1775  package: 1777
warning: directory permissions differ on var/log/gdm/
filesystem: 1770  package: 755
usermod: no changes

Will this do any damage? Should I change permission to ones package needs?

mojomagic

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Registered: 2009-04-10

Posts: 26

Re: GDM 2.28.1 - new update

Any damage so far?

ammon

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Registered: 2008-12-11

Posts: 413

Re: GDM 2.28.1 - new update

Did not log out so far..

ulukai

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Registered: 2009-10-16

Posts: 82

Re: GDM 2.28.1 - new update

It won't do damage, you can safely log out and back in again :-p I was brave enough to do the test :-D
However, it might be a potential security risk (linux permissions is a long time ago for me, have to digg into it again ;-))

mojomagic

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Registered: 2009-04-10

Posts: 26

Re: GDM 2.28.1 - new update

It won't do damage, you can safely log out and back in again :-p I was brave enough to do the test :-D
However, it might be a potential security risk (linux permissions is a long time ago for me, have to digg into it again ;-))

I took the risk too, works.

cb474

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Registered: 2009-04-04

Posts: 469

Re: GDM 2.28.1 - new update

Even if it's working okay, is there any reason the permissions should be changed? Could this effect some functionality of gdm?

ammon

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Registered: 2008-12-11

Posts: 413

Re: GDM 2.28.1 - new update

So far it is ok. Ok, there are several problems with new gdm, but none about this.

ulukai

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Registered: 2009-10-16

Posts: 82

Re: GDM 2.28.1 - new update

So far it is ok. Ok, there are several problems with new gdm, but none about this.

Do you mean that the update 2.28.0 --> 2.28.1 brings new problems? If so, which?
Or maybe you mean that GDM 2.28.x needs some getting used to

ammon

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Registered: 2008-12-11

Posts: 413

Re: GDM 2.28.1 - new update

Yeah I mean upgrade from 2.26 to 2.28 is problematic.

tigrmesh

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From: Florida, US

Registered: 2007-12-11

Posts: 794

Re: GDM 2.28.1 - new update

http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17133