Have now installed rsyslog and there is now evidence of new logs being written. The gnome services editor is still not working. Attempting to run it from a terminal: st...@diddy:~$ su Password: r...@diddy:/home/steve# services-admin The program 'services-admin' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing: apt-get install gnome-system-tools services-admin: command not found r...@diddy:/home/steve# r...@diddy:/home/steve# r...@diddy:/home/steve# r...@diddy:/home/steve# aptitude -v install gnome-system-tools Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initialising package states... Done gnome-system-tools is already installed at the requested version (2.28.0-0ubuntu1) gnome-system-tools is already installed at the requested version (2.28.0-0ubuntu1) No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Writing extended state information... Done Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initialising package states... Done
Current status: 0 broken [+0], 0 updates [+0], 154 new [+0]. r...@diddy:/home/steve# Best wishes, Steve. 2009/10/2 Steve Faulkner <steviefaulk...@googlemail.com> > Hi, > Your question sounds on track. rsyslog is not installed. Also the > description of rsyslog rings familiar bells. There have been complaints > when updating gdm that gconf could not be reached because of internal > networking problems, possibly from TCP/ip not being enabled for ORBit. That > complaint also suggested that nfs might have been damaged after a system > crash due to power to the machine being removed during operation: that has > happened. > > I'll install rsyslog and report on the outcome. > > Thanks for your email and your help. > > Steve Faulkner. > > 2009/10/2 Michael Vogt <michael.v...@ubuntu.com> > > This looks much like a dup of #428843 - could you please check if you >> have rsyslog installed? >> >> -- >> aptd crashed with error in connect() >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/424793 >> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber >> of a duplicate bug. >> >> Status in “aptdaemon” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed >> >> Bug description: >> Binary package hint: aptdaemon >> >> Ubuntu karmic >> >> ProblemType: Crash >> Architecture: amd64 >> Date: Sat Sep 5 13:16:43 2009 >> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 >> ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/aptd >> InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6 >> Package: aptdaemon 0.10+bzr226-0ubuntu1 >> PackageArchitecture: all >> ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/sbin/aptd >> ProcEnviron: >> >> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-9.29-generic >> PythonArgs: ['/usr/sbin/aptd'] >> SourcePackage: aptdaemon >> Title: aptd crashed with error in connect() >> Uname: Linux 2.6.31-9-generic x86_64 >> UserGroups: >> > > > > -- > Steve Faulkner > webpage: Foundations for The Quantum Logic: > http://steviefaulkner.wordpress.com/ > > > > -- Steve Faulkner webpage: Foundations for The Quantum Logic: http://steviefaulkner.wordpress.com/ -- aptd crashed with error in connect() https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/424793 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs