OS-3198

apt-get upgrade: Failed to set capabilities on file `/usr/bin/arping' (Function not implemented)

Status:: Open
Created:: 2014-07-10T13:46:14.000-0400
Updated:: 2019-08-28T13:26:45.165-0400

Description

Setting up iputils-arping (3:20121221-4ubuntu1.1) ...
NOTE: Under Linux, effective file capabilities must either be empty, or
      exactly match the union of selected permitted and inheritable bits.
Failed to set capabilities on file `/usr/bin/arping' (Function not implemented)

Comments (1)

Former user commented on 2016-01-28T16:19:13.000-0500:

Despite the updates to setxattr in OS-5122, apt-get/dpkg still complain about file-based capabilities due to the fact that CAP_SETFCAP is not accepted by the capabilities(7) emulation.