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  1. Xenial (16.04)
  2. Bug #1522675
  3. Comment #30

Comment 30 for bug 1522675

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Tsu Jan (tsujan2000) wrote : Re: /root/.synaptic/ not created due to locking status

Cleaning up Firefox bookmarks, I encountered this report again. Apparently, apt developers don't want to see this as a bug, so don't wait for a fix! To get rid of that annoying message, you should have an `_apt` user (which probably you have) and change the owner of the folder in question from `root:root` to `_apt:root`.

I'm on Debian and the above trick worked here months ago.