When looking at what has caused the problem in the installation log i found this line:
Setting up gdm (2.28.0-0ubuntu8) ... chown: cannot access '/var/lib/gdm/.gvfs': Permission denied now doing ls on /var/lib/gdm (only root allowed to read) I get the following: r...@neferty-laptop:/var/lib/gdm# ls -al ls: cannot access .gvfs: Permission denied total 76 drwxr-x--- 14 gdm gdm 4096 2009-09-29 08:23 . drwxr-xr-x 79 root root 4096 2009-09-29 17:20 .. drwx------ 2 gdm gdm 4096 2009-09-18 09:14 .cache drwx------ 2 gdm gdm 4096 2009-09-16 12:42 .config drwx------ 3 gdm gdm 4096 2009-09-16 12:42 .dbus -rw------- 1 gdm gdm 16 2009-09-17 08:45 .esd_auth drwxr-xr-x 2 gdm gdm 4096 2009-09-22 07:45 .fontconfig drwx------ 4 gdm gdm 4096 2009-09-29 17:14 .gconf drwx------ 2 gdm gdm 4096 2009-09-29 17:14 .gconfd drwxr-xr-x 2 gdm gdm 4096 2009-09-29 08:23 .gconf.mandatory -rw-r--r-- 1 gdm gdm 276 2009-09-29 02:31 .gconf.path d????????? ? ? ? ? ? .gvfs -rw------- 1 gdm gdm 10512 2009-09-27 14:27 .ICEauthority drwxr-xr-x 2 gdm gdm 4096 2009-09-27 14:21 .icons drwx------ 2 gdm gdm 4096 2009-09-27 12:47 .pulse -rw------- 1 gdm gdm 256 2009-09-16 16:05 .pulse-cookie drwxr-xr-x 2 gdm gdm 4096 2009-09-27 14:21 .themes drwx------ 4 gdm gdm 4096 2009-09-27 14:21 .thumbnails To be noted: a solution might be chowning the .gvfs directory manually to gdm/root, however even as root it doesn't allow to do so. Even to access that directory: r...@neferty-laptop:/var/lib/gdm# chown root:root .gvfs chown: cannot access `.gvfs': Permission denied What do the question marks mean anyway? Does anybody know how to get rid of them?: d????????? ? ? ? ? ? .gvfs -- package gdm 2.28.0-0ubuntu8 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/438561 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
