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Message #105293
[Bug 1069350] Re: suspicious /.rpmdb root directory
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Title:
suspicious /.rpmdb root directory
Status in rpm package manager:
Opinion
Status in dkms package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Status in rpm package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in dkms source package in Trusty:
New
Status in rpm source package in Trusty:
New
Status in dkms package in Debian:
New
Status in rpm package in Debian:
Fix Released
Bug description:
I have the following directory structure on my system which conflicts
to the LSB standard:
ls -ld /.rpmdb/{,*}
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Okt 21 2011 /.rpmdb/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8192 Okt 21 2011 /.rpmdb/Basenames
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8192 Okt 21 2011 /.rpmdb/Conflictname
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24576 Apr 27 00:52 /.rpmdb/__db.001
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096000 Apr 27 00:52 /.rpmdb/__db.002
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 83894272 Apr 27 00:52 /.rpmdb/__db.003
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 811008 Apr 27 00:52 /.rpmdb/__db.004
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8192 Okt 21 2011 /.rpmdb/Dirnames
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8192 Okt 21 2011 /.rpmdb/Group
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8192 Okt 21 2011 /.rpmdb/Installtid
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8192 Okt 21 2011 /.rpmdb/Name
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8192 Okt 21 2011 /.rpmdb/Obsoletename
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12288 Okt 21 2011 /.rpmdb/Packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8192 Okt 21 2011 /.rpmdb/Providename
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8192 Okt 21 2011 /.rpmdb/Requirename
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8192 Okt 21 2011 /.rpmdb/Sha1header
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8192 Okt 21 2011 /.rpmdb/Sigmd5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8192 Okt 21 2011 /.rpmdb/Triggername
Afaik, this directory belongs to rpm or alien. Maybe it appears
because of a lack of environment variables (e.g. $HOME not set) in
particular situations.
As you can see in the listing, the directory is not used frequently,
but I'm not sure if it's save to delete it. Maybe the problem is
already solved in the current version of ubuntu (at last the time the
files were touched I was running Ubuntu 11.10), but I think it's
important to have this bug registered so other users can find it.
There is an active thread about it at ubuntuforums:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1864423
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