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  1. Xenial (16.04)
  2. Bug #1522675
  3. Comment #20

Comment 20 for bug 1522675

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Travisgevans (travisgevans) wrote : Re: /root/.synaptic/ not created due to locking status

I just now found a very similar message from the update-notifier cronjob:

/etc/cron.daily/update-notifier-common:
Get:1 http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_20160407.1.orig.tar.gz [27.0 MB]
Fetched 27.0 MB in 1min 11s (378 kB/s)
W: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file '/var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/partial/adobe-flashplugin_20160407.1.orig.tar.gz' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied)
flashplugin-installer: downloading http://archive.canonical.com/pool/partner/a/adobe-flashplugin/adobe-flashplugin_20160407.1.orig.tar.gz
Installing from local file /var/lib/update-notifier/package-data-downloads/partial/adobe-flashplugin_20160407.1.orig.tar.gz
Flash Plugin installed.

So, apparently not unique to Synaptic?