When updating, get error: cannot remove microsoft.gpg; operation not permitted

[linxiaopi]

Creating a bug report/issue

Required Information

• DietPi version | cat /boot/dietpi/.version
  G_DIETPI_VERSION_CORE=7
  G_DIETPI_VERSION_SUB=9
  G_DIETPI_VERSION_RC=0
  G_GITBRANCH='master'
  G_GITOWNER='MichaIng'

• Distro version | echo $G_DISTRO_NAME $G_RASPBIAN
  buster 1

• Kernel version | uname -a
5.10.63-v7+ #1496 SMP Wed Dec 1 15:58:11 GMT 2021 armv7l GNU/Linux

• SBC model | echo $G_HW_MODEL_NAME or (EG: RPi3)
  RPi 2 Model B (armv7l)

• Power supply used | (EG: 5V 1A RAVpower)
  5V 1A

• SD card used | (EG: SanDisk ultra)
  SanDisk Ultra 8GB

Additional Information (if applicable)

• Software title | (EG: Nextcloud)
• Was the software title installed freshly or updated/migrated?
• Can this issue be replicated on a fresh installation of DietPi?

• Bug report ID | echo $G_HW_UUID

Steps to reproduce

1. ...run command: dietpi-update and allow the update to run
2. ...update runs then exits back to update window with the error: cannot remove microsoft.gpg: operation not permitted
3. try to manually rm microsoft.gpg by logging in as root, but get same error

Expected behaviour

• ...update should run smoothly with no errors

Actual behaviour

• ...get error: cannot remove microsoft.gpg: operation not permitted

Extra details

• ...I had tried to remove the microsoft repository in the past, but I don't remember the commands nor if it was successful

[Joulinar]

Hi,

can you share following

ls -la /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/

[linxiaopi]

Sure. Here it is:
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 5 2021 . drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Feb 9 17:00 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 5 2021 microsoft.gpg

[linxiaopi]

Sorry, that didn't format correctly. Here it is again:

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar  5  2021 .
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Feb  9 17:00 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    0 Mar  5  2021 microsoft.gpg

[Joulinar]

no need to post the information twice. You could simply use the edit function on GitHub. I will go to remove the first post 😃

microsoft.gpg seems to be an empty file. Could you try following

rm /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/microsoft.gpg

[MichaIng]

Looks like you followed an overly sensitive guide stating to make that microsoft.gpg immutable to prevent RPi packages from re-adding the MS VSCode repository 😄. It was always the best and easiest to simply remove it and have a little trust in the RPi Foundation that they didn't meant this sneaky or harmfully but simply wanted to make it easier for their users to install VSCode. Us as well as the related raspberrypi-sys-mods package both attempt to remove the repo and key, and the immutable flag prevents that.

chattr -i /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/microsoft.gpg
dietpi-update 1

Probably I should update our pre-patch to remove the flag automatically, when present.

[MichaIng]

Added a pre-patch: 9e39014

[linxiaopi]

Looks like you followed an overly sensitive guide stating to make that microsoft.gpg immutable to prevent RPi packages from re-adding the MS VSCode repository 😄. It was always the best and easiest to simply remove it and have a little trust in the RPi Foundation that they didn't meant this sneaky or harmfully but simply wanted to make it easier for their users to install VSCode. Us as well as the related raspberrypi-sys-mods package both attempt to remove the repo and key, and the immutable flag prevents that.

chattr -i /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/microsoft.gpg
dietpi-update 1

Probably I should update our pre-patch to remove the flag automatically, when present.

That did the job. Thanks!

[MichaIng]

I'll mark this as closed then. Feel free to reopen if required.