On 05-09-2020 22:44, David C. Rankin wrote: > All, > > On system update, I get the following related to the brltty[1] package: > > (2/7) Creating temporary files... > Detected unsafe path transition /etc → /etc/brlapi.key during canonicalization > of /etc/brlapi.key. > error: command failed to execute correctly > > Apparently this package was installed as a dependency of qemu. > > I generally do not want to ignore errors on update, so how do I fix this > problem? The package was updated August 29, but the issue continues. Should I > just delete the key and let qemu start over with a new one in a new location? > Checked https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/QEMU, but nothing noted. > > [1] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/brltty/ > cc'ing David, if everything works as intended he should see this message twice. I have that file also. its content is a number in ASCII text. https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-packages/blob/packages/brltty/trunk/brltty.tmpfiles is what triggers that message . Does that match the permissions of the file on your system ? Lone_Wolf =============================== Yes, thank you for pointing the permissions out, but they are 0640, e.g. $ l /etc/brlapi.key -rw-r----- 1 root brlapi 33 Oct 19 2016 /etc/brlapi.key Seems like this message popped up in the last couple of weeks.
