| 2008-03-03 22:47:41 |
Corinne Toure |
bug |
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added bug |
| 2008-03-18 10:01:04 |
James Westby |
None: status |
New |
Incomplete |
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| 2008-03-18 13:59:13 |
James Westby |
None: status |
Incomplete |
Confirmed |
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| 2008-03-18 14:05:14 |
James Westby |
description |
After I installed the last update today, I keep receiving this error message when I try to open the Synoptic Package Manager:
E: ERROR: could not create configuration directory /home/root/.synaptic - mkdir (2 No such file or directory) |
Hi,
When the user uses users-admin to edit anythin to
do with the root account the root home directory is
set to /home/root/. This makes tools like synaptic
unable to open.
The problem is that the preferences window uses
a profile from /etc/gnome-system-tools/users/profiles
to set certain default values. For the root account it
is the "Administrator" type, which says that the
home folder should live under /home/
This means that /home/root is then filled in as the default
value of the Advanced tab for the root user. Therefore
if the user makes any change and presses "OK" (or perhaps
on no change) the home directory for the root account is
set to the wrong value.
I think that this is fine behaviour for new accounts, but for
existing accounts these fields shouldn't be set to the
default value, but to the current existing value, which
would mean that clicking OK would only set the value
to the same as it was before.
The original report remains below.
Thanks,
James
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After I installed the last update today, I keep receiving this error message when I try to open the Synoptic Package Manager:
E: ERROR: could not create configuration directory /home/root/.synaptic - mkdir (2 No such file or directory)
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| 2008-03-18 14:05:14 |
James Westby |
title |
E: ERROR: could not create configuration directory /home/root/.synaptic - mkdir (2 No such file or directory) |
[users-admin] Changing anything about the root account sets and invalid home directory |
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| 2008-03-18 14:12:40 |
Pedro Villavicencio |
gnome-system-tools: importance |
Undecided |
High |
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| 2008-03-18 14:12:40 |
Pedro Villavicencio |
gnome-system-tools: assignee |
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desktop-bugs |
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| 2008-03-18 14:12:40 |
Pedro Villavicencio |
gnome-system-tools: milestone |
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ubuntu-8.04 |
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| 2008-03-18 14:23:47 |
Pedro Villavicencio |
gnome-system-tools: status |
Confirmed |
Triaged |
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| 2008-03-18 14:24:02 |
Pedro Villavicencio |
bug |
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assigned to gst |
| 2008-03-19 09:10:52 |
Bug Watch Updater |
gst: status |
Unknown |
New |
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| 2008-03-31 15:53:07 |
James Westby |
bug |
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added attachment 'g-s-t.diff' (g-s-t.diff) |
| 2008-03-31 16:06:13 |
James Westby |
bug |
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added subscriber Ubuntu Sponsors for main |
| 2008-04-01 06:00:07 |
Launchpad Janitor |
gnome-system-tools: status |
Triaged |
Fix Released |
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| 2008-04-28 22:36:16 |
Bug Watch Updater |
gst: status |
New |
Confirmed |
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| 2008-06-27 11:23:23 |
James Westby |
bug |
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assigned to gnome-system-tools (Debian) |
| 2008-06-28 10:40:24 |
Bug Watch Updater |
gnome-system-tools: status |
Unknown |
New |
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| 2009-12-05 20:56:51 |
Launchpad Janitor |
branch linked |
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lp:ubuntu/gnome-system-tools |
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| 2010-09-16 05:51:20 |
Bug Watch Updater |
gst: status |
Confirmed |
Fix Released |
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| 2010-09-16 05:51:20 |
Bug Watch Updater |
gst: importance |
Unknown |
High |
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| 2011-08-10 19:22:45 |
Bug Watch Updater |
gnome-system-tools (Debian): status |
New |
Fix Released |
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