I still get this error, after I use the "sudo" command on files related to APT. I noticed that the behavior of sudo in karmic always defaults to access o-rwx ---and that defeats the purpose of installing system- wide software using sudo, among other things.
*For example, running the following line in the terminal sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/$(lsb_release -cs).list --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list causes the medibuntu.list to be saved with access mode 640. If I then run the command "sudo apt-get update", gdebi-gtk cannot be used after that ---and the update-manager complains that it cannot access either /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list or /var/lib/synaptic/preferences. *Also, the command "sudo update-mime-packages /usr/share/mime" changes the access modes for the mime-types lists, and after that nautilus assigns text/plain to all the files shown. ...$ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 9.10 Release: 9.10 ...$ uname -srvmo Linux 2.6.31-14-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 16 14:05:01 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux ...$ apt-cache policy gdebi sudo gdebi: Installed: 0.5.9 Candidate: 0.5.9 Version table: *** 0.5.9 0 500 http://ubuntu.cs.utah.edu karmic/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status sudo: Installed: 1.7.0-1ubuntu2 Candidate: 1.7.0-1ubuntu2 Version table: *** 1.7.0-1ubuntu2 0 500 http://ubuntu.cs.utah.edu karmic/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status -- gdebi don´t work - invalid file descriptor https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/438266 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to vte in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
