The version of clamav was the one available for update on April 29 2009. I am not sure if that is version clamav 0.95.1+dfsg-1ubuntu1.1 or it is the one just before it as I ran an update following this successful fix and wasn't certain if it had been updated. I'll be more careful next time. Clamav became "owner" and the username retained group however it had no write powers.
** Description changed: Would not boot into normal Gnome desktop as I would get a failure message instructing me to set user permissions. Couldn't get into grub single mode as the system didn't start with a standard grub menu, just proceeds to the boot up graphic. Problem found and solution discovered: I switched to Gnome safe mode and finally got in. I changed the ownership of the users home directory which you can do by going to "cd /home" and ls -l to find the current ownership which had been taken over by clamav, apparently clamav, during it's last update, took possession of the users home directory which caused the failure to boot ( user's home directory is the directory which is in the /home directory and has the same name you log on with. "username" = the name you log on with.). Whilst in the "/home" directory at the command line simply type "chown username:username username" and finally "chmod 0755 username". This will change the owner and group to "username" and should solve the problem caused by the bad clamav installation. + + The version of clamav was the one available for update on April 29 2009. + I am not sure if that is version clamav 0.95.1+dfsg-1ubuntu1.1 or it is + the one just before it as I ran an update following this successful fix + and wasn't certain if it had been updated. I'll be more careful next + time. Clamav became "owner" and the username retained group however it + had no write powers. -- Clamav update takes ownership of the users home directory thus preventing booting into gnome desktop. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/369986 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 -- universe-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/universe-bugs
