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

Dan Tenenbaum dtenenba at fhcrc.org
Sun May 18 19:32:02 CEST 2014



----- Original Message -----
> From: "Juergen Rose" <rose at rz.uni-potsdam.de>
> To: "Dan Tenenbaum" <dtenenba at fhcrc.org>
> Cc: "Juergen Rose [guest]" <guest at bioconductor.org>, "vsn Maintainer" <huber at ebi.ac.uk>, bioconductor at r-project.org
> Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2014 3:38:34 AM
> Subject: Re: [BioC] R-3.1.0: biocLite("vsn") removes all files in /
> 
> 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/


Maybe try changing permissions recursively?

sudo chgrp -R portage /usr/lib64/R/library

Dan


> 
> 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)
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> Sie sind eingeladen, es unter bestimmten Bedingungen weiter zu
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> 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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