Richard Mancusi wrote: > 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 > Could you run this and tell us what it shows:
sudo -H bash -c 'echo $HOME' -- 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
