problems with upgrading gnome-sessions [Dapper]

[Peter Garrett]

On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 09:30:59 +1000
Shelagh Manton <oneida at tpg.com.au> wrote:

> Did a dapper upgrade yesterday and noticed that gnome-session postinstall
> routine returned a 1 on exit. Tried to fix problem through synaptic "fix"
> but obviously this did not work. Foolishly thought it could be fixed up
> eventually, like so many upgrade problems seem to, but today I am working
> in KDE (thank goodness I do have another desktop) because I can't get into
> gnome. 
> 
> This is the message apt-get install gnome-session gave
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/sbin/update-gconf-defaults", line 56, in ?
>     fd=open(defaults_dir+'/'+f)
> IOError: [Errno 5] Input/output error:
> '/usr/share/gconf/defaults/10_gnome-session' 
> dpkg: error processing gnome-session (--configure):
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  gnome-session
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> 
> 
> Can I do anything about this? Or should I leave it to the packagers?

Hi Shelagh,

I had a similar problem some time ago with gnome-session and solved it by
totally removing the package and configuration with

sudo apt-get remove --purge gnome-session

Then reinstalled it with

sudo apt-get install gnome-session

This worked for me: - as they say, "Your Mileage May Vary" ...

Peter

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