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-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to software-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1257124 Title: ubuntu-software-center functionality depends on /var/cache directory Status in “software-center” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: This is fresh install of Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS. Fully updated. I recently moved the /var/cache directory to tmpfs for my own reasons. According to FHS [1] the /var/cache contents should be deletable. Also according to an accepted answer on askubuntu.com [2] there should be no problem on deleting the contents of /var/cache directory. Reproduce: Move /var/cache to tmpfs via /etc/fstab by adding the following line tmpfs /var/cache tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0 reboot your system and try to open ubuntu software center. What I expected to happen: ubuntu software center recreates the folders/files that are needed in order to function correctly (i.e. like apt does). [1] - http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.2/fhs-5.5.html [2] - http://askubuntu.com/questions/107858/moved-logs-to-ram-tmpfs-and-now-got-this-problem ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: software-center 5.2.9 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-130.200~pok-generic 3.11.6 Uname: Linux 3.11.0-130-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.6 Architecture: amd64 Date: Tue Dec 3 02:08:53 2013 MarkForUpload: True PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: software-center UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-center/+bug/1257124/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
