weather applet will not install when using NFS home directories with rootsquash
Bug #873636 reported by
Tom
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #873386: post-install script should not try to install autostart file in user's home dir.
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| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| indicator-weather (Ubuntu) |
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Undecided
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Bug Description
sudo apt-get install indicator-weather
<snip>
Creating autostart files...
mkdir: cannot create directory `/home/
dpkg: error processing indicator-weather (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
indicator-weather
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
This user's home directory is on an NFS mount with rootsquash enabled. There is no way superuser can write into those directories, and the package is stuck in iF state.
Description: Ubuntu 11.10
Release: 11.10
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| Tom (tom-nonserviam) wrote | #1 |
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indicator-weather:
Installed: 11.05.31-0ubuntu2
Candidate: 11.05.31-0ubuntu2
Version table:
*** 11.05.31-0ubuntu2 0
500 http://
100 /var/lib/