[systemd-devel] news on Issue # 4078 ?

[arnaud gaboury]

On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 7:27 PM Tomasz Torcz <tomek at pipebreaker.pl> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 04:37:19PM +0000, arnaud gaboury wrote:
> > I am still with a broken UID/GID container for some specific directories.
> > This is described in issue #4078 [0].
> >
> > It start to be annoying as I can't upgrade some packages on the Fedora
> > container. At least, I think failed upgrades are related to this issue.
> > Let's take one example:
> >
> > # dnf upgrade iputils
> > .......................
> >   Upgrading   :
> > iputils-20161105-1.fc25.x86_64
> > 1/2
> > Error unpacking rpm package iputils-20161105-1.fc25.x86_64
> > Error unpacking rpm package iputils-20161105-1.fc25.x86_64
> > error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/bin/ping;5852c405: cpio:
> > cap_set_file
> >
> > First, are these errors probably due to my UID/GID issues?
>
>   This error is because ping in Fedora is not suid, instead uses filesystem
> capabilities* to grant only necessary permissions. If you use any
> filesystem
> lacking fscaps (like for example NFS), you get this error and ping will
> work only for root.
>
>
So, what am I suposed to do? Forget iputils package upgrade, changing
filesystem (I am on Btrfs) ?
TY for your help.

>
>
>
> * https://lwn.net/Articles/313838/
>
>
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