I got the same as gloonie but atjobs and atspool were both owned by bin:bin.
Same fix worked for me: sudo chown daemon:daemon /var/spool/cron/atjobs sudo chown daemon:daemon /var/spool/cron/atspool Now atd runs OK: r...@slippy:~# /etc/init.d/atd start * Starting deferred execution scheduler atd [ OK ] r...@slippy:~# /etc/init.d/atd status * atd is running -- "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 [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
