Cant drop privileges for downloading as file _apt

Julian Arthurs Julian Arthurs 1 1 gold badge 5 5 silver badges 5 5 bronze badges. Your running a process that needs root privileges as non-root It is known bug , after long discussion with developers it is fixed. Please wait some hours or one-two days. This also happens in the ubuntu docker container. You can just ignore the warnings for that case. Don't "sudo apt source" from unconventional folders unless you meant to.

Why is this still unfixed, almost 5 years later??? It needs root priviledges already to do anything, why is it dropping permissions for the download? Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Florian Diesch Florian Diesch I have this problem while using a mounted folder autside of my vagrant VM, so the mounted folder is always belonging to the user vagrant which cannot be changed.

How can I solve this there? Afterward, no more error! Re: Synaptic messages after removing or installing software Post by dave » Wed Aug 10, am This seems to be a bug from reading lauchpad has posts like this. I only get them though synaptic not if i use the cl. Re: Synaptic messages after removing or installing software Post by jsocoinac » Tue Aug 23, pm Actually, bug reports filed for both Ubuntu and Debian suggest that this is not, in fact despite the bug reports!

I just encountered this issue today. Oddly enough vagrant 1. Upgraded vagrant and reinstalled vagrant plugins and the issue was resolved. Skip to content. Star 1. New issue. Jump to bottom. Copy link. I have a very basic cachier setup on a virtualbox based image.

Stephen Kitt Stephen Kitt k 44 44 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Thanks a lot, it never occurred to me that there was such a thing as too much permission. It's not so much too much permission as it is wrong permission.

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