[Popcon-developers] Bug#623550: popularity-contest: pam_mount and pmvarrun errors

[Bill Allombert]

reassign 623550 libpam-mount
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On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 12:09:04AM +0400, alexander barakin wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 17:38, Bill Allombert
> <Bill.Allombert at math.u-bordeaux1.fr> wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 10:14:02AM +0400, alexander barakin (aka sash-kan) wrote:
> >> Package: popularity-contest
> >> Version: 1.49
> >> Severity: normal
> >>
> >> after upgrading from lenny to squeeze every week i get a message from
> >> the cron:
> >> > /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest:
> >> > pam_mount(spawn.c:102): error setting uid to 0
> >> > pmvarrun(pmvarrun.c:453): could not unlink /var/run/pam_mount/nobody:
> >> > Permission denied
> >>
> >> as far as i understand popularity-contest does not work.
> >
> > This looks like a problem with your pam setup and the nobody user.
> > /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest do:
> >  su -s /bin/sh -c "/usr/sbin/popularity-contest" nobody
> 
> thanks for the reply.
> 
> error in pam_mount occurs even it this case:
> $ sudo su -s /bin/sh -c "ls /" $USER
> <ls output>
> pam_mount(spawn.c:102): error setting uid to 0
> 
> maybe it makes sense to assign this bug to package libpam-mount?

Done

> after
> $ sudo aptitude purge libpam-mount
> errors is gone.

Hello Bastian, I am reassigning the bug to you because I am clueless about
libpam-mount.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe at debian.org>

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