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Botched npm Update Crashes Linux Systems, Forces Users to Reinstall (bleepingcomputer.com)

Posted by msmash on from the beware dept.

Catalin Cimpanu, reporting for BleepingComputer: A bug in npm (Node Package Manager), the most widely used JavaScript package manager, will change ownership of crucial Linux system folders, such as /etc, /usr, /boot. Changing ownership of these files either crashes the system, various local apps, or prevents the system from booting, according to reports from users who installed npm v5.7.0. -- the buggy npm update. Users who installed this update -- mostly developers and software engineers -- will likely have to reinstall their system from scratch or restore from a previous system image.

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  1. LOL by ArchieBunker · · Score: 5, Funny

    A shitscript package manager that does a chmod of /etc and /boot? This thing had to have been written by that Poettering asshole.

    --
    Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
    1. Re:LOL by RightwingNutjob · · Score: 3, Funny

      I'm guessing 'ownership' is too racist, capitalist, and phalocentric to be a valid concept in filesystem design form much longer.

    2. Re:LOL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Do you guys really need to inject your rightwing politics into literally EVERY story????

      It's a memorial to the language which attempted to shatter the glass ceiling but was stopped by the patriarchy.

  2. Re: Rescue mode by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    It's funny because windows almost always automatically recovers from problems these days. It's literally generations ahead of Linux unfortunately and osx.

    I guess it's because they had lots of mistakes to learn from