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hoschi

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From: Ulm (Germany)

Registered: 2008-11-03

Posts: 476

libvirt-1.2.12-1 user and group owners differ

Hello!

During the latest upgrade pacman complains about differing directory permissions for libvirt:

warning: directory ownership differs on /var/cache/libvirt/qemu/
filesystem: 99:78  package: 0:0
warning: directory ownership differs on /var/lib/libvirt/qemu/
filesystem: 99:78  package: 0:0

This are the user and group, not file mode ("rwx")! In this case the directories are currently owned by the user "nobody" and the group "kvm", while the package thinks actually "none" should own that directories. Should I change that manually?

Thanks
Hoschi

PS: I currently doesn't use QEMU and KVM, but that can happen very fast and than it need to work out-of-the-box

Last edited by hoschi (2015-01-28 17:30:06)

root

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From: 127.0.0.1

Registered: 2012-04-13

Posts: 297

Re: libvirt-1.2.12-1 user and group owners differ

Just to clarify, that "none" (0:0) is actually root, that is root:root

I hope someone else can step in in order to tell you if a manual change is advised which I would understand as positive though better safe than sorry.

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hoschi

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From: Ulm (Germany)

Registered: 2008-11-03

Posts: 476

Re: libvirt-1.2.12-1 user and group owners differ

You're of course right! Null brainer by me, "0" is "root". I will change the owner as contemplated by the package.