teletis
October 28th, 2008, 08:29 PM
Hi everybody,
I have a problem with gdm and I really can't find any solution:
tele@tele-desktop:~$ sudo aptitude safe-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following partially installed packages will be configured:
gdm
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Setting up gdm (2.20.7-0ubuntu1.1) ...
chown: changing ownership of `/var/lib/gdm/.cookie': Operation not permitted
dpkg: error processing gdm (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
gdm
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Setting up gdm (2.20.7-0ubuntu1.1) ...
chown: changing ownership of `/var/lib/gdm/.cookie': Operation not permitted
dpkg: error processing gdm (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
gdm
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
tele@tele-desktop:~$
I also get this error everytime I upgrade with the 'Update Manager'. Can anyone help?
Regards
MNH
I have a problem with gdm and I really can't find any solution:
tele@tele-desktop:~$ sudo aptitude safe-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following partially installed packages will be configured:
gdm
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Setting up gdm (2.20.7-0ubuntu1.1) ...
chown: changing ownership of `/var/lib/gdm/.cookie': Operation not permitted
dpkg: error processing gdm (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
gdm
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Setting up gdm (2.20.7-0ubuntu1.1) ...
chown: changing ownership of `/var/lib/gdm/.cookie': Operation not permitted
dpkg: error processing gdm (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
gdm
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
tele@tele-desktop:~$
I also get this error everytime I upgrade with the 'Update Manager'. Can anyone help?
Regards
MNH