installation of 8.04 fails

[Phil Sexton]

Joe Farruggio wrote:
> Hi
>  When i try to install Ubuntu ver 8.04.1, the installation completes 
> and  i get to the point of restarting the computer. When it restarrts i 
> get the following error message
> 
> "Server authorization directory (demon/ServerAuthDir) is set to 
> /var/lib/gdm  but is not owned by user 106  and group 114. Please 
> correct the ownership or GDM configuration  and restart GDM"
> 
> How do i go about doing this?
> 
I would try this: Log in as your user and command:

sudo chown 106.114
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start