I looked at my /var/spool/cron: ls -l /var/spool/cron total 3 drwxrwx--T 2 bin bin 1024 2007-06-21 10:10 atjobs drwxrwx--T 2 daemon daemon 1024 2008-07-10 11:01 atspool drwx-wx--T 2 root crontab 1024 2008-10-17 23:28 crontabs
Notice that atjobs has owner as bin/bin. I changed this to daemon:daemon: sudo chown daemon:daemon /var/spool/cron/atjobs Then I was able to configure at, ubuntu-standard and lsb-core. I don't know what changed the permissions, but they may be the same as an old bug reported: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/279395 Now things seem to be working! -- "at" package could not be installed during kubuntu upgrade from 8.04 to 8.10 beta https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/286172 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
