Hi. Please note that my knowledge of Ubuntu/linux is terribly lacking. I am not sure is this is the same bug, but it kind of looks related at the least.
I've hit this bug twice, which means I had to reinstall Lucid twice. In order to replicate it, I would have to install it yet again - which I will do only if it is necessary: which it might not be. I've setup a live-persistent external HDD. I'm trying to install several math programs (for use in my section at work). While Gnome is still the 'active' desktop, I've also added KDE and LXDE: several programs seem to be kind of native to those, and installing them helped (ex. for KDE saving of program configurations, and also for KDE help-files to work). However. When trying to add XFCE4, 'desktop-base' came into play. It seems as if it is trying to save changes (?the update?) to files which in the live-persistence are read-only. This is reminiscent of of init- whatever, and vmlinux-whatever when I first tried out Ultimate Edition 2.7 (or was it 2.6? sorry), and tried to upgrade it. An OpenSUSE-user friend helped me then (something with 'symlinks'?), and later (soon) you guys fixed that via another update. The effect of this is that Synaptic will eternally try and 'repair' the 'error'. I couldn't figure out how to get rid of it, so the only alternative was to reinstall. Which sucked. The second time round, something else (I do not know what), also slipped in the dependency to 'desktop-base'. Again I had to reinstall. Which has turned me into a paranoid searcher of 'desktop-base' whenever I use Synaptic. While not critical, it was an identical experience as with the init/vmlinux problems I had with Lucid-Synaptic at the start. I hope this report will be of use. Regards, R. -- package desktop-base (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/628249 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
