[BioC] R-3.1.0: biocLite("vsn") removes all files in /

Juergen Rose rose at rz.uni-potsdam.de
Sun May 18 12:38:34 CEST 2014


Am Sonntag, den 18.05.2014, 00:03 -0700 schrieb Dan Tenenbaum:
> Hi Juergen,
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Juergen Rose [guest]" <guest at bioconductor.org>
> > To: bioconductor at r-project.org, rose at rz.uni-potsdam.de
> > Cc: "vsn Maintainer" <huber at ebi.ac.uk>
> > Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2014 11:09:44 PM
> > Subject: [BioC] R-3.1.0: biocLite("vsn") removes all files in /
> > 
> > I had the following files in /:
> > 
> > root at caiman:/root(8)# ll /
> > total 160301
> > drwxr-xr-x   2 root root      4096 May 16 12:23 bin/
> > drwxr-xr-x   6 root root      3072 May 14 13:58 boot/
> > -rw-r--r--   1 root root     38673 May 14 14:22 boot_local-d.log
> > lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root        11 Jan 22  2011 data -> data_caiman/
> > drwxr-xr-x   7 root root      4096 Mar  9 22:29 data_caiman/
> > lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root        23 Dec 29 13:43 data_impala ->
> > /net/impala/data_impala/
> > lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root        21 Jan 27 08:13 data_lynx2 ->
> > /net/lynx2/data_lynx2/
> > drwxr-xr-x  21 root root      4040 May 14 14:40 dev/
> > drwxr-xr-x 160 root root     12288 May 17 17:14 etc/
> > -rw-------   1 root root     15687 Dec 26 13:42 grub.cfg_old
> > lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root        11 Jan 23  2011 home -> home_caiman/
> > drwxr-xr-x   5 root root      4096 Dec 26 11:31 home_caiman/
> > lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root        23 Dec 29 13:43 home_impala ->
> > /net/impala/home_impala/
> > lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root        21 Jan 27 08:13 home_lynx2 ->
> > /net/lynx2/home_lynx2/
> > lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root         5 Mar 30 04:25 lib -> lib64/
> > drwxr-xr-x   3 root root      4096 May 14 04:31 lib32/
> > drwxr-xr-x  17 root root     12288 May 16 12:23 lib64/
> > -rw-r--r--   1 root root   1797418 May 14 14:22 login.log
> > drwx------   2 root root     16384 Jan 20  2011 lost+found/
> > drwxr-xr-x   2 root root         0 May 14 14:21 misc/
> > drwxr-xr-x  10 root root      4096 Nov  4  2013 mnt/
> > drwxr-xr-x   4 root root         0 May 17 17:38 net/
> > drwxr-xr-x  13 root root      4096 Feb 13 13:25 opt/
> > dr-xr-xr-x 270 root root         0 May 14 14:21 proc/
> > drwx------  36 root root      4096 May 17 15:00 root/
> > drwxr-xr-x  30 root root       840 May 16 18:21 run/
> > drwxr-xr-x   2 root root     12288 May 16 12:23 sbin/
> > -rw-r--r--   1 root root 162191459 Jan 13  2011
> > stage3-amd64-20110113.tar.bz2
> > dr-xr-xr-x  12 root root         0 May 14 14:21 sys/
> > drwxrwxrwt  16 root root      1648 May 17 17:14 tmp/
> > drwxr-xr-x  19 root root      4096 May  6 04:40 usr/
> > drwxr-xr-x  16 root root      4096 Dec 26 11:17 var/
> > 
> > 
> > Then I did as root:
> > R
> > > source("http://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
> > > biocLite("vsn")
> > 
> > Save workspace image? [y/n/c]: n
> > root at caiman:/root(15)# ll /
> > total 93
> > drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 May 16 12:23 bin/
> > drwxr-xr-x   6 root root  3072 May 14 13:58 boot/
> > drwxr-xr-x   7 root root  4096 Mar  9 22:29 data_caiman/
> > drwxr-xr-x  21 root root  4040 May 14 14:40 dev/
> > drwxr-xr-x 160 root root 12288 May 17 17:14 etc/
> > drwxr-xr-x   5 root root  4096 Dec 26 11:31 home_caiman/
> > drwxr-xr-x   3 root root  4096 May 14 04:31 lib32/
> > drwxr-xr-x  17 root root 12288 May 16 12:23 lib64/
> > drwx------   2 root root 16384 Jan 20  2011 lost+found/
> > drwxr-xr-x   2 root root     0 May 14 14:21 misc/
> > drwxr-xr-x  10 root root  4096 Nov  4  2013 mnt/
> > drwxr-xr-x   2 root root     0 May 17 17:38 net/
> > drwxr-xr-x  13 root root  4096 Feb 13 13:25 opt/
> > dr-xr-xr-x 272 root root     0 May 14 14:21 proc/
> > drwx------  36 root root  4096 May 17 15:00 root/
> > drwxr-xr-x  30 root root   840 May 16 18:21 run/
> > drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 12288 May 16 12:23 sbin/
> > dr-xr-xr-x  12 root root     0 May 17 17:38 sys/
> > drwxrwxrwt  19 root root  1752 May 17 18:33 tmp/
> > drwxr-xr-x  19 root root  4096 May  6 04:40 usr/
> > drwxr-xr-x  16 root root  4096 Dec 26 11:17 var/
> > 
> > I.e., all not directory files in / disappeared. This happens on two
> > systems. I know it is a risk to run scripts from the internet as
> > root. But what would be the alternative to install a bioconductor
> > package for all users?
> > 
> 
> I don't know why this happened. We'll need to investigate further. 
> 
> However, you could install BiocInstaller (the package that provides biocLite()) as follows (you don't need to be root):
> 
> install.packages("BiocInstaller", repos="http://bioconductor.org/packages/3.0/bioc")
> 
> Then you can install packages as follows:
> library(BiocInstaller)
> biocLite("vsn")
> 
> Note that you don't have to be root to install packages tha are accessible to all users.
> You just have to install them to a directory that you have permissions to write to. 
> 
> You can start R (as any user) and see where it will look for packages by doing:
> 
> .libPaths()
> 
> Then arrange to give yourself (a non-root user) write permissions to that directory, and then install packages with biocLite() as described above. If the installation is indeed removing files from /, it should now not be able to do so if it doesn't have permission to do so.
> 
> Dan

Thanks Dan,

I tried this.  I am belonging to group portage and the R-packages are
installed under /usr/lib64/R/library. Therefore I changed the group
of /usr/lib64/R/library to portage and made it writable by portage:

root at lynx2:/root(21)# ll -d /usr/lib64/R/library
drwxrwxr-x 40 root portage 4096 May 18 12:10 /usr/lib64/R/library/

Then I tried as user rose to install vsn (some empty lines removed):

rose at lynx2:/home/rose(1)$ R

R version 3.1.0 (2014-04-10) -- "Spring Dance"
Copyright (C) 2014 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
R ist freie Software und kommt OHNE JEGLICHE GARANTIE.
Sie sind eingeladen, es unter bestimmten Bedingungen weiter zu
verbreiten.
Tippen Sie 'license()' or 'licence()' für Details dazu.
R ist ein Gemeinschaftsprojekt mit vielen Beitragenden.
Tippen Sie 'contributors()' für mehr Information und 'citation()',
um zu erfahren, wie R oder R packages in Publikationen zitiert werden
können.
Tippen Sie 'demo()' für einige Demos, 'help()' für on-line Hilfe, oder
'help.start()' für eine HTML Browserschnittstelle zur Hilfe.
Tippen Sie 'q()', um R zu verlassen.

> .libPaths()
[1] "/usr/lib64/R/library"
> library(BiocInstaller)
Bioconductor version 3.0 (BiocInstaller 1.15.5), ?biocLite for help
> biocLite("vsn")
BioC_mirror: http://bioconductor.org
Using Bioconductor version 3.0 (BiocInstaller 1.15.5), R version 3.1.0.
Installing package(s) 'vsn'
also installing the dependencies ‘affyio’, ‘preprocessCore’, ‘zlibbioc’,
‘Biobase’, ‘affy’, ‘limma’
versuche URL
'http://bioconductor.org/packages/3.0/bioc/src/contrib/affyio_1.33.0.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 114002 bytes (111 Kb)
URL geöffnet
==================================================
downloaded 111 Kb
versuche URL
'http://bioconductor.org/packages/3.0/bioc/src/contrib/preprocessCore_1.27.0.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 120390 bytes (117 Kb)
URL geöffnet

...

installing to /usr/lib64/R/library/affyio/libs
** R
** preparing package for lazy loading
** help
*** installing help indices
** building package indices
** testing if installed package can be loaded
* DONE (affyio)
ERROR: dependency ‘Biobase’ is not available for package ‘affy’
* removing ‘/usr/lib64/R/library/affy’
ERROR: dependencies ‘Biobase’, ‘affy’ are not available for package
‘vsn’
* removing ‘/usr/lib64/R/library/vsn’

The downloaded source packages are in
        ‘/tmp/Rtmp4RcqFj/downloaded_packages’
Updating HTML index of packages in '.Library'
Old packages: 'BiocGenerics', 'MASS', 'RBGL', 'graph', 'slam'
Update all/some/none? [a/s/n]: a
versuche URL
'http://bioconductor.org/packages/3.0/bioc/src/contrib/BiocGenerics_0.11.2.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 32452 bytes (31 Kb)
URL geöffnet
...

This results in permission errors:

versuche URL 'http://cran.fhcrc.org/src/contrib/slam_0.1-32.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 46672 bytes (45 Kb)
URL geöffnet
==================================================
downloaded 45 Kb

* installing *source* package ‘BiocGenerics’ ...
mv: das Verschieben von „/usr/lib64/R/library/BiocGenerics“ nach
„/usr/lib64/R/library/00LOCK-BiocGenerics/BiocGenerics“ ist nicht
möglich: Keine Berechtigung
Warnung in file.copy(f, instdir, TRUE) :
  Problem ./NAMESPACE nach /usr/lib64/R/library/BiocGenerics/NAMESPACE
zu kopieren: Keine Berechtigung
Warnung in file(file, ifelse(append, "a", "w")) :
  kann Datei '/usr/lib64/R/library/BiocGenerics/DESCRIPTION'
nicht ?ffnen: Keine Berechtigung
Error in file(file, ifelse(append, "a", "w")) : 
  kann Verbindung nicht ?ffnen
ERROR: installing package DESCRIPTION failed for package ‘BiocGenerics’
* removing ‘/usr/lib64/R/library/BiocGenerics’
* installing *source* package ‘MASS’ ...
** Paket ‘MASS’ erfolgreich entpackt und MD5 Summen überprüft
mv: das Verschieben von „/usr/lib64/R/library/MASS“ nach
„/usr/lib64/R/library/00LOCK-MASS/MASS“ ist nicht möglich: Keine
Berechtigung
Warnung in file.copy(f, instdir, TRUE) :
  Problem ./NAMESPACE nach /usr/lib64/R/library/MASS/NAMESPACE zu
kopieren: Keine Berechtigung
Warnung in file(file, ifelse(append, "a", "w")) :
  kann Datei '/usr/lib64/R/library/MASS/DESCRIPTION' nicht ?ffnen: Keine
Berechtigung
Error in file(file, ifelse(append, "a", "w")) : 
  kann Verbindung nicht ?ffnen
ERROR: installing package DESCRIPTION failed for package ‘MASS’
* removing ‘/usr/lib64/R/library/MASS’
* installing *source* package ‘slam’ ...
** Paket ‘slam’ erfolgreich entpackt und MD5 Summen überprüft
mv: das Verschieben von „/usr/lib64/R/library/slam“ nach
„/usr/lib64/R/library/00LOCK-slam/slam“ ist nicht möglich: Keine
Berechtigung
Warnung in file.copy(f, instdir, TRUE) :
  Problem ./NAMESPACE nach /usr/lib64/R/library/slam/NAMESPACE zu
kopieren: Keine Berechtigung
Warnung in file(file, ifelse(append, "a", "w")) :
  kann Datei '/usr/lib64/R/library/slam/DESCRIPTION' nicht ?ffnen: Keine
Berechtigung
Error in file(file, ifelse(append, "a", "w")) : 
  kann Verbindung nicht ?ffnen
ERROR: installing package DESCRIPTION failed for package ‘slam’
* removing ‘/usr/lib64/R/library/slam’
* installing *source* package ‘graph’ ...
mv: das Verschieben von „/usr/lib64/R/library/graph“ nach
„/usr/lib64/R/library/00LOCK-graph/graph“ ist nicht möglich: Keine
Berechtigung
Warnung in file.copy(f, instdir, TRUE) :
  Problem ./NAMESPACE nach /usr/lib64/R/library/graph/NAMESPACE zu
kopieren: Keine Berechtigung
Warnung in file(file, ifelse(append, "a", "w")) :
  kann Datei '/usr/lib64/R/library/graph/DESCRIPTION' nicht ?ffnen:
Keine Berechtigung
Error in file(file, ifelse(append, "a", "w")) : 
  kann Verbindung nicht ?ffnen
ERROR: installing package DESCRIPTION failed for package ‘graph’
* removing ‘/usr/lib64/R/library/graph’
* installing *source* package ‘RBGL’ ...
mv: das Verschieben von „/usr/lib64/R/library/RBGL“ nach
„/usr/lib64/R/library/00LOCK-RBGL/RBGL“ ist nicht möglich: Keine
Berechtigung
untarring boost include tree...
Warnung in file.copy(f, instdir, TRUE) :
  Problem ./NAMESPACE nach /usr/lib64/R/library/RBGL/NAMESPACE zu
kopieren: Keine Berechtigung
Warnung in file.copy(f, instdir, TRUE) :
  Problem ./NEWS nach /usr/lib64/R/library/RBGL/NEWS zu kopieren: Keine
Berechtigung
Warnung in file(file, ifelse(append, "a", "w")) :
  kann Datei '/usr/lib64/R/library/RBGL/DESCRIPTION' nicht ?ffnen: Keine
Berechtigung
Error in file(file, ifelse(append, "a", "w")) : 
  kann Verbindung nicht ?ffnen
ERROR: installing package DESCRIPTION failed for package ‘RBGL’
* removing ‘/usr/lib64/R/library/RBGL’

The downloaded source packages are in
        ‘/tmp/Rtmp4RcqFj/downloaded_packages’
Updating HTML index of packages in '.Library'
Es gab 12 Warnungen (Anzeige mit warnings())

After leaving R I can't find a /usr/lib64/R/library/vsn directory:


root at lynx2:/root(23)# ll /usr/lib64/R/library/vsn
/bin/ls: cannot access /usr/lib64/R/library/vsn: No such file or
directory


The only packages installed today under /usr/lib64/R/library are the
first five directories of the following list:

rose at lynx2:/home/rose(3)$ ll -t  /usr/lib64/R/library/ | head
insgesamt 168
drwxrwxr-x  7 rose rose 4096 18. Mai 12:22 affyio/
drwxrwxr-x  8 rose rose 4096 18. Mai 12:22 limma/
drwxrwxr-x  9 rose rose 4096 18. Mai 12:22 zlibbioc/
drwxrwxr-x  8 rose rose 4096 18. Mai 12:22 preprocessCore/
drwxr-xr-x  8 root root 4096 18. Mai 12:10 BiocInstaller/
drwxr-xr-x  8 root root 4096  3. Mai 19:06 scatterplot3d/
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 16. Apr 09:17 MASS/
drwxr-xr-x  7 root root 4096 16. Apr 09:17 base/
drwxr-xr-x  8 root root 4096 16. Apr 09:17 boot/


Any further hint is appreciated.



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