Comment 12 for bug 198172
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| James Westby (james-w) wrote Re: [Bug 198172] Re: E: ERROR: could not create configuration directory /home/root/.synaptic - mkdir (2 No such file or directory) | #12 |
On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 12:41 +0000, StiveG wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I did have the same problem this morning on Hardy... Changed /home/root
> to /root and it worked
>
> Yesterday I had problem with my root user, had an expire account notice
> when trying to run terminal as root. I defined a password manually in
> user-groups and the expiration notice disappeared... Maybe that changed
> the /home/root path?
Yes, that may well have caused it, thankyou for the information.
I'll do some testing and reassign the bug report if that is correct.
Thanks,
James