[Unstable Update] January 2024 Edition

warning: directory permissions differ on /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/
filesystem: 750  package: 755
Log excerpt
:: Starting full system upgrade...
...
Package (13)                 Old Version    New Version  Net Change  Download Size

...
core/systemd                 255.2-2        255.2-3        0.00 MiB       9.87 MiB
...
:: Processing package changes...
( 1/13) upgrading pam                                                                                                                                              [####################################################################################################] 100%
( 2/13) upgrading systemd-libs                                                                                                                                     [####################################################################################################] 100%
( 3/13) upgrading systemd                                                                                                                                          [####################################################################################################] 100%
warning: directory permissions differ on /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/
filesystem: 750  package: 755
( 4/13) upgrading polkit                                                                                                                                           [####################################################################################################] 100%
warning: directory permissions differ on /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/
filesystem: 750  package: 755
( 5/13) upgrading fwupd                                                                                                                                            [####################################################################################################] 100%
warning: directory permissions differ on /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/
filesystem: 750  package: 755
( 6/13) upgrading geoclue                                                                                                                                          [####################################################################################################] 100%
warning: directory permissions differ on /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/
filesystem: 750  package: 755
( 7/13) upgrading gtk-update-icon-cache                                                                                                                            [####################################################################################################] 100%
( 8/13) upgrading gtk3                                                                                                                                             [####################################################################################################] 100%
( 9/13) upgrading gtk4                                                                                                                                             [####################################################################################################] 100%
(10/13) upgrading intel-gmmlib                                                                                                                                     [####################################################################################################] 100%
(11/13) upgrading iputils                                                                                                                                          [####################################################################################################] 100%
(12/13) upgrading plymouth                                                                                                                                         [####################################################################################################] 100%
(13/13) upgrading systemd-sysvcompat                                                                                                                               [####################################################################################################] 100%
:: Running post-transaction hooks...
...

Or has this changed @philm ?

Yes, it’s changed with polkit 124-1.

Examples:

This will take care of it once and for all:

sudo chmod 0755 /usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/
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Since we are mentioning these things …

Got the same for /var/log/audit after most recent sync.

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Not I, said the fly. Standard folder permissions here with audit 4.0-1:

❯ ls -al /var/log/audit/
total 8
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Apr 21  2022 .
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 Jan  7 00:00 ..
Packages (8) audit-4.0-1  ddcutil-2.1.0-1  lib32-gnutls-3.8.3-1  lib32-pam-1.6.0-1  lib32-sqlite-3.45.0-1  openmpi-4.1.6-2  openpmix-4.2.8-1  shadow-4.14.3-1

Total Download Size:    7.62 MiB
Total Installed Size:  24.14 MiB
Net Upgrade Size:       0.17 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] 
:: Retrieving packages...
 shadow-4.14.3-1-x86_64                                                           1179.5 KiB  3.76 MiB/s 00:00 [##################################################################] 100%
 lib32-pam-1.6.0-1-x86_64                                                          166.2 KiB   359 KiB/s 00:00 [##################################################################] 100%
 audit-4.0-1-x86_64                                                                387.2 KiB   543 KiB/s 00:01 [##################################################################] 100%
 lib32-gnutls-3.8.3-1-x86_64                                                       875.4 KiB  1128 KiB/s 00:01 [##################################################################] 100%
 openpmix-4.2.8-1-x86_64                                                           854.6 KiB  1096 KiB/s 00:01 [##################################################################] 100%
 openmpi-4.1.6-2-x86_64                                                              2.9 MiB  3.63 MiB/s 00:01 [##################################################################] 100%
 lib32-sqlite-3.45.0-1-x86_64                                                      718.1 KiB   764 KiB/s 00:01 [##################################################################] 100%
 ddcutil-2.1.0-1-x86_64                                                            662.6 KiB   688 KiB/s 00:01 [##################################################################] 100%
 Total (8/8)                                                                         7.6 MiB  7.73 MiB/s 00:01 [##################################################################] 100%
(8/8) checking keys in keyring                                                                                 [##################################################################] 100%
(8/8) checking package integrity                                                                               [##################################################################] 100%
(8/8) loading package files                                                                                    [##################################################################] 100%
(8/8) checking for file conflicts                                                                              [##################################################################] 100%
(8/8) checking available disk space                                                                            [##################################################################] 100%
:: Processing package changes...
(1/8) upgrading audit                                                                                          [##################################################################] 100%
warning: directory permissions differ on /var/log/audit/
filesystem: 700  package: 755

And its not a new package … its been in the previous syncs and this is the first warning. :person_shrugging:

(not like its a problem… but I suppose the inconsistency is a mystery)

Actually, I looked at the logs again :eyeglasses: … no, this is actually the first time the package has been upgraded since this new install.
So the discrepancy is from the installation.

Had to change polkit-1/rules.d/ permission according to above with this upgrade.
Also the same permission error with /var/log/audit/ .

In addition I also removed manjaro-hotfixes:

(19/22) upgrading manjaro-hotfixes                                       [----------------------------------------] 100%

manjaro-hotfixes is obsolete, please remove:

pamac remove manjaro-hotfixes

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I was automatically notified by Journalctl about the KDE powerdevil crash after today’s update.

Log
Failed to start Powerdevil.
Process 2587 (org_kde_powerde) of user 1000 dumped core.

Stack trace of thread 2587:
#0  0x000073172a2ac83c n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x8e83c)
#1  0x000073172a25c668 raise (libc.so.6 + 0x3e668)
#2  0x000073172b84941c _ZN6KCrash19defaultCrashHandlerEi (libKF5Crash.so.5 + 0x741c)
#3  0x000073172a25c710 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x3e710)
#4  0x000073172a2ac83c n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x8e83c)
#5  0x000073172a25c668 raise (libc.so.6 + 0x3e668)
#6  0x000073172a2444b8 abort (libc.so.6 + 0x264b8)
#7  0x000073172a2443dc n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x263dc)
#8  0x000073172a254d26 __assert_fail (libc.so.6 + 0x36d26)
#9  0x00007317241652b9 n/a (libddcutil.so.5 + 0x4c2b9)
#10 0x0000731724167f35 n/a (libddcutil.so.5 + 0x4ef35)
#11 0x00007317241681f5 n/a (libddcutil.so.5 + 0x4f1f5)
#12 0x000073172418c16b n/a (libddcutil.so.5 + 0x7316b)
#13 0x00007317241938a2 ddca_get_display_info_list2 (libddcutil.so.5 + 0x7a8a2)
#14 0x0000731724276d37 n/a (powerdevilupowerbackend.so + 0x11d37)
#15 0x000073172427862e _ZN23PowerDevilUPowerBackend18initWithBrightnessEb (powerdevilupowerbackend.so + 0x1362e)
#16 0x000073172aad0e27 n/a (libQt5Core.so.5 + 0x2d0e27)
#17 0x000073172426d634 _ZN23PowerDevilUPowerBackend24brightnessSupportQueriedEb (powerdevilupowerbackend.so + 0x8634)
#18 0x000073172aad0e27 n/a (libQt5Core.so.5 + 0x2d0e27)
#19 0x000073172b69956a _ZN4KJob6resultEPS_NS_14QPrivateSignalE (libKF5CoreAddons.so.5 + 0x5e56a)
#20 0x000073172b69f53c n/a (libKF5CoreAddons.so.5 + 0x6453c)
#21 0x000073172aad0e27 n/a (libQt5Core.so.5 + 0x2d0e27)
#22 0x00007317250007bd n/a (kauth_helper_plugin.so + 0xa7bd)
#23 0x00007317250010a1 n/a (kauth_helper_plugin.so + 0xb0a1)
#24 0x000073172b5db76e n/a (libQt5DBus.so.5 + 0x2176e)
#25 0x000073172aac3964 _ZN7QObject5eventEP6QEvent (libQt5Core.so.5 + 0x2c3964)
#26 0x000073172aa9bef8 _ZN16QCoreApplication15notifyInternal2EP7QObjectP6QEvent (libQt5Core.so.5 + 0x29bef8)
#27 0x000073172aaa0e5b _ZN23QCoreApplicationPrivate16sendPostedEventsEP7QObjectiP11QThreadData (libQt5Core.so.5 + 0x2a0e5b)
#28 0x000073172aae6ec8 n/a (libQt5Core.so.5 + 0x2e6ec8)
#29 0x000073172950df69 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x59f69)
#30 0x000073172956c367 n/a (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0xb8367)
#31 0x000073172950c162 g_main_context_iteration (libglib-2.0.so.0 + 0x58162)
#32 0x000073172aaead0c _ZN20QEventDispatcherGlib13processEventsE6QFlagsIN10QEventLoop17ProcessEventsFlagEE (libQt5Core.so.5 + 0x2ead0c)
#33 0x000073172aa9ac04 _ZN10QEventLoop4execE6QFlagsINS_17ProcessEventsFlagEE (libQt5Core.so.5 + 0x29ac04)
#34 0x000073172aa9c0a3 _ZN16QCoreApplication4execEv (libQt5Core.so.5 + 0x29c0a3)
#35 0x00005f9a3d84e55b n/a (org_kde_powerdevil + 0x655b)
#36 0x000073172a245cd0 n/a (libc.so.6 + 0x27cd0)
#37 0x000073172a245d8a __libc_start_main (libc.so.6 + 0x27d8a)
#38 0x00005f9a3d84f045 n/a (org_kde_powerdevil + 0x7045)

After quickly restoring Btrfs root-snapshot, I checked every single updated package.
No doubt, ddcutil 2.1.0 breaks the backwards compatibility of KDE powerdevil 5.27.10.

I go back to the Btrfs root subvolume and downgrade ddcutil 2.1.0 to 2.0.0 to resolve the issue.

I found some bug reports on 2024-01-19

Bug reports

kde power management system keeps crashing / Pacman & Package Upgrade Issues / Arch Linux Forums

476375 – Powerdevil fails to start with ddcutil-2.0.0, spikes cpu usage to max every few seconds

https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/19a9a87/arch_and_plasma_527_issues_after_kernel_update/




Another question:

Something wants to call networkmanager to connect to redirect.archlinux.org by detecting Portmaster. This is the first time for me since today’s update.

Screenshot_20240119_131318

But the URL redirect.archlinux.org is not in networkmanager config. Where does this URL come from?

$ cat /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/20-connectivity.conf
[connectivity]
uri=http://networkcheck.kde.org
uri=http://ping.manjaro.org/check_network_status.txt
uri=http://ping.archlinux.org/nm-check.txt

What does this URL do? :thinking:


Edit:

ddcutil 2.1.0-2 fixed this issue

ping.archlinux.org points to redirect.archlinux.org (they are the same)

$ doggo ping.archlinux.com
NAME                    TYPE    CLASS   TTL     ADDRESS                 NAMESERVER
ping.archlinux.org.     CNAME   IN      1154s   redirect.archlinux.org. 127.0.0.53:53
redirect.archlinux.org. A       IN      2768s   95.216.195.133          127.0.0.53:53
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Previous time audit was updated for me was August 11th, 2023. No complaints about differing directory permissions back then.

Can’t seem to automount the drives on startup after some of the latest updates, it requires password now, does it have to do with this polkit changes?

If your user is in the wheel group, you can check if adding back this rule, which got removed by manjaro-hotfixes dummy package conversion was responsible for passwordless mounting.

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Yep, that helped, thanks.

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In latest filesystem-2024.01.19-1-any is it safe to change /bin/bash to /usr/bin/bash in /etc/passwd ?

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I think so: the folder /bin is a link to /usr/bin:

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Of course, that’s what the change was. :wink:

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i’m little confused with what to do here in my case;

my current /etc/passwd reads as;

/etc/passwd

root:x:0:0::/root:/sbin/nologin
nobody:x:65534:65534:Nobody:/:/usr/bin/nologin
dbus:x:81:81:System Message Bus:/:/usr/bin/nologin
bin:x:1:1::/:/usr/bin/nologin
daemon:x:2:2::/:/usr/bin/nologin
mail:x:8:12::/var/spool/mail:/usr/bin/nologin
ftp:x:14:11::/srv/ftp:/usr/bin/nologin
http:x:33:33::/srv/http:/usr/bin/nologin
systemd-journal-remote:x:982:982:systemd Journal Remote:/:/usr/bin/nologin
systemd-network:x:981:981:systemd Network Management:/:/usr/bin/nologin
systemd-resolve:x:980:980:systemd Resolver:/:/usr/bin/nologin
systemd-timesync:x:979:979:systemd Time Synchronization:/:/usr/bin/nologin
systemd-coredump:x:978:978:systemd Core Dumper:/:/usr/bin/nologin
uuidd:x:68:68::/:/usr/bin/nologin
dhcpcd:x:977:977:dhcpcd privilege separation:/var/lib/dhcpcd:/usr/bin/nologin
dnsmasq:x:976:976:dnsmasq daemon:/:/usr/bin/nologin
rpc:x:32:32:Rpcbind Daemon:/var/lib/rpcbind:/usr/bin/nologin
avahi:x:974:974:Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD daemon:/:/usr/bin/nologin
colord:x:973:973:Color management daemon:/var/lib/colord:/usr/bin/nologin
geoclue:x:972:972:Geoinformation service:/var/lib/geoclue:/usr/bin/nologin
git:x:971:971:git daemon user:/:/usr/bin/git-shell
nm-openconnect:x:970:970:NetworkManager OpenConnect:/:/usr/bin/nologin
nm-openvpn:x:969:969:NetworkManager OpenVPN:/:/usr/bin/nologin
ntp:x:87:87:Network Time Protocol:/var/lib/ntp:/bin/false
polkitd:x:102:102:PolicyKit daemon:/:/usr/bin/nologin
rtkit:x:133:133:RealtimeKit:/proc:/usr/bin/nologin
sddm:x:968:968:Simple Desktop Display Manager:/var/lib/sddm:/usr/bin/nologin
usbmux:x:140:140:usbmux user:/:/usr/bin/nologin
koshika:x:1000:1000:Koshika:/home/koshika:/bin/bash
tor:x:43:43::/var/lib/tor:/usr/bin/nologin
clamav:x:64:64:Clam AntiVirus:/:/usr/bin/nologin
openvpn:x:967:967:OpenVPN:/:/usr/bin/nologin
saned:x:966:966:SANE daemon user:/:/usr/bin/nologin
systemd-oom:x:964:964:systemd Userspace OOM Killer:/:/usr/bin/nologin
named:x:40:40:BIND DNS Server:/:/usr/bin/nologin
gluster:x:963:963:GlusterFS daemons:/var/run/gluster:/usr/bin/nologin
mysql:x:962:962:MariaDB:/var/lib/mysql:/usr/bin/nologin
tss:x:961:961:tss user for tpm2:/:/usr/bin/nologin
libvirt-qemu:x:959:959:Libvirt QEMU user:/:/usr/bin/nologin
qemu:x:958:958:QEMU user:/:/usr/bin/nologin
postgres:x:957:957:PostgreSQL user:/var/lib/postgres:/bin/bash
odoo:x:956:956:Odoo user:/var/lib/odoo:/usr/bin/nologin
rpcuser:x:34:34:RPC Service User:/var/lib/nfs:/usr/bin/nologin
darkstat:x:954:954:darkstat user:/var/darkstat:/usr/bin/nologin
systemd-journal-upload:x:953:953:systemd Journal Upload:/:/usr/bin/nologin
fwupd:x:952:952:Firmware update daemon:/var/lib/fwupd:/usr/bin/nologin
_talkd:x:950:950:User for legacy talkd server:/:/usr/bin/nologin
passim:x:949:949:Local Caching Server:/usr/share/empty:/usr/bin/nologin

do you mean to say changing just the first line from;

root:x:0:0::/root:/sbin/nologin

to;

root:x:0:0::/root:/usr/bin/bash

would be sufficient in my case

OR should i leave it as is

You add this line, if it does not exist in the file.

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How should we know what you want? You already changed it once to /sbin/nologin apparently. Why, we don’t know.

It exists, always.

I know, but he doesn’t have that line in his file. This seems like he made a mess.