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chown bug ? or sys glitch ?

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From: ahfc <ahfc <at> hetnet.nl>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: chown bug ? or sys glitch ?
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2016 14:51:56 +0100

Dear bug-hunters,

This message maybe totally useless but maybe a confirmation if similar
received.


Chown gave an "Operation not permitted"  "error"  but seems to have
worked as expected anyway.


Maybe a system glitch or a chown bug so just fyi.

Intention:  change  root:root  to  root:users   on dir struct
command:  sudo chown -R root:users /run/media/user_name/long_disk_number/*

( so mounted through /run/media     but an internal disk  i.e. no
external usb, or such )

chown went happily on its way but with a message in between:

chown: changing ownership of ‘/run/media/rest_/of_/path_/filename ':
Operation not permitted

Puzzling, but no time to look into it immediately.
After sys power off ( and later on again ) I did an

"ls -hal"  on that specific file: it had become root:users   after all;
surprisingly !

To check if I had not checked a wrong (rightly changed) filename I did a
"find -not -group users"   on the dir struct
which did not come up with any ( by chown ) missed file, so all seems
well after all.


Also a replay of the command for that (already changed to root:users
file) worked without no problem.
Also2 changing that file to root:dialout   and back again to root:users 
showed no problem.

in conclusion: ???

background info:
chown (GNU coreutils) 8.22


Best regards,
A. Colijn

Message #8 received at 25159 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>
To: ahfc <ahfc <at> hetnet.nl>, 25159 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25159: chown bug ? or sys glitch ?
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2018 01:35:59 -0600

tags 25159 moreinfo
stop

(triaging old bugs)

On 2016-12-10 6:51 a.m., ahfc wrote:
> Maybe a system glitch or a chown bug so just fyi.
> 
> Intention:  change  root:root  to  root:users   on dir struct
> command:  sudo chown -R root:users /run/media/user_name/long_disk_number/*
> 
> ( so mounted through /run/media     but an internal disk  i.e. no
> external usb, or such )
> 
> chown went happily on its way but with a message in between:
> 
> chown: changing ownership of ‘/run/media/rest_/of_/path_/filename ':
> Operation not permitted
> 
> Puzzling, but no time to look into it immediately.
> After sys power off ( and later on again ) I did an
> 
> "ls -hal"  on that specific file: it had become root:users   after all;
> surprisingly !

It seems your message was lost and not replied to in 2 years.
Sorry about that.

If this is still an issue for you, can you provide more details,
in particular what is the file system on /run/media ?

regards,
 - assaf

Message #13 received at 25159 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>
To: ahfc <ahfc <at> hetnet.nl>, 25159 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25159: chown bug ? or sys glitch ?
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2019 02:24:55 -0700

close 25159
stop

On 2018-10-28 1:35 a.m., Assaf Gordon wrote:
> 
> On 2016-12-10 6:51 a.m., ahfc wrote:
>> Maybe a system glitch or a chown bug so just fyi.
[...]
>> chown: changing ownership of ‘/run/media/rest_/of_/path_/filename ':
>> Operation not permitted
>>
> 
> If this is still an issue for you, can you provide more details,
> in particular what is the file system on /run/media ?

With no further replies, I'm closing this bug.

regards,
 - assaf

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