On Feb 3, 2008 9:13 AM, Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On su, 2008-02-03 at 09:05 -0600, Richard Mancusi wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gksu update-manager > > warning: could not initiate dbus > > You don't need to run update-manager as root. It will switch to root > (and ask for username then) when it needs it. This should at least fix > the dbus initialization problem. (I don't know about the other problems, > which may be unrelated.) >
That fixed the dbus problem. The password works, gui comes up showing the available updates, then back to a window with my initial error: ---------- An error occured The following details are provided: E:ERROR: could not create configuration directory /home/root/.synaptic - mkdir (2 No such file or directory) ---------- Terminal output = current dist not found in meta-release file -rich -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
