#9069 NORM Not Tri: root owns /home/olpc/Activities

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#9069: root owns /home/olpc/Activities
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           Reporter:  pgf           |       Owner:                       
               Type:  defect        |      Status:  new                  
           Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  Not Triaged          
          Component:  not assigned  |     Version:  not specified        
         Resolution:                |    Keywords:  activities home chown
        Next_action:  diagnose      |    Verified:  0                    
Deployment_affected:                |   Blockedby:                       
           Blocking:                |  
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Comment(by kevix):

 Replying to [ticket:9069 pgf]:
 > today i helped someone who was having upgrade problems
 > (going from 650 to 767).  the upgrade was fine, but the activity
 > installer wouldn't do anything.  in the end, we discovered
 > (thanks to a suggestion by kevix on irc) that
 > /home/olpc/Activities had ownership root:root.

 someone I know recently recieved a G1G2V2 708-loaded laptop that had
 borked software (internal RT#25262), after much help from me and other
 #olpc-help folks, and after getting that person to do a clean install this
 person had the same symptoms-- that of being able to install applications
 and them not showing up. It was this hours of trying 'everything I could
 think of' that lead me to suggest pgf to check the ownership. I hope this
 fix can address RT#25262 and other G1G1V2 708 users -- it would leave a
 bad impression if xmas 2008 XOs did not function.

 >
 > i've found several bugs in trac related to incorrect permissions
 > on the Activities directory (e.g.  #5320 #7537 #5433).
 >
 > does anyone recall a bug related to ownership?  or have ideas
 > what might have caused this?  the owner
 > had never done any other upgrades.  they had installed opera via
 > an rpm at one point.  they claim this was their only non-standard
 > installation.
 >
 > quoting from IRC:
 > {{{
 > <Violet-Gold-15> 12:40:58> -... I have updated to 767 but can't install
 applications.  Can someone please help me.
 > <Violet-Gold-15> 12:41:42> -I select 1 or more activities to update and
 click install selected
 > <Violet-Gold-15> 12:42:22> -The screen changes to "downloading updates"
 and a progress bar appears with "starting download"
 > <Violet-Gold-15> 12:42:42> -but nothing happens after that.  The XO is
 definately connected to the internet.
 > <Violet-Gold-15> 12:43:14> -There is never any progress shown in the
 bar, no activities are installed /updated and no Sugar activities ever
 appe>
 > <Violet-Gold-15> 12:43:54> -I also tried this twice, i.e., reinstalled
 olpc-update 767 but get the same results
 > <Violet-Gold-15> 12:45:23> -I even downloaded G1G1 activity pack to a
 USB and restarted the XDO with the USB attached.
 > }}}
 >
 > i've reproduced these exact symptoms by manually changing another laptop
 back to root:root ownership of the Activities dir.

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