Odd behaviour from my .list files

JasonMehmel · 2024-04-08 00:39:58

When I use the Boron BL scripts, I get an odd response whenever it's checking the repositories:

W: Unable to read /etc/apt/sources.list.d/bunsen-bookworm-backports.list - open (13: Permission denied)
W: Unable to read /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-bookworm-backports.list - open (13: Permission denied)

Held packages:
W: Unable to read /etc/apt/sources.list.d/bunsen-bookworm-backports.list - open (13: Permission denied)
W: Unable to read /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-bookworm-backports.list - open (13: Permission denied)

When I go to actually run apt update, I get no errors: it's just when I'm running it through those BL scripts. (Like the recurring update script or the welcome one.)

Looking at my actual files in thunar, I do see that they're listed as 'unknown' instead of plain text documents, and they've got an 'x' in their icon.

(Apologies for the weird formatting, there were some graphics artifacts as I took the screenshot. Click to make bigger!)

I wonder if there's some classification that is giving the script (and thunar) worries, but not apt or synaptic themselves?

Last edited by JasonMehmel (2024-04-08 00:40:25)

johnraff · 2024-04-08 01:54:01

Those permissions look strange indeed. Could you post the output of 'ls -l /etc/apt/sources.list.d' ?

Here's mine:

john@beryllium:~$ ls -l /etc/apt/sources.list.d
total 12
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 109 Sep 20  2022 bunsen-bullseye-backports.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 122 Dec 25  2022 bunsen.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 118 Sep 20  2022 debian-bullseye-backports.list

JasonMehmel · 2024-04-08 02:32:13

-rwxr-x--- 1 root root 117 Mar 21 10:21 bunsen-bookworm-backports.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  59 Mar 20 23:05 bunsen.list
-rwxr-x--- 1 root root 135 Mar 27 22:10 debian-bookworm-backports.list

That's weird. (In the terminal they're also font-coloured as executables.)

I don't know why I would have made those executable or how I would have done it when I was updating my sources in the upgrade...

Any risk in un-executable-izing them?

johnraff · 2024-04-08 06:47:01

JasonMehmel wrote:

Any risk in un-executable-izing them?

No, I think 644 should be fine.

#1 2024-04-08 00:39:58

Odd behaviour from my .list files

#2 2024-04-08 01:54:01

Re: Odd behaviour from my .list files

#3 2024-04-08 02:32:13

Re: Odd behaviour from my .list files

#4 2024-04-08 06:47:01

Re: Odd behaviour from my .list files

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