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

[alexander barakin]

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?

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

-- 
wbr, alexander barakin aka sash-kan.