can't upload after upgrade to Lucid

[Alan Pope]

On 7 October 2010 12:10, william drescher <william at techservsys.com> wrote:
> I just did an upgrade from Jaunty to Lucid, which went without
> apparent error.

On the local or remote machine? I assume remote given you're ftping to it?

> All seems to be well, but...
>
> When I try to upload a file using HTML-KIT or FileZilla, I get
> the error: Permission denied.
>

Disk full?

> In desperation I changed /var, ... to 777 file permissions and I
> still get the error.

Erk, that was possibly unwise :S

> I am going mildly nuts and sure could use some suggestions as to
> what to try next to figure this out.
>

What ftp daemon is in use at the other end? Does it have a log which
indicates why you aren't allowed? Is it possible a configuration
option has been set on during the upgrade which makes the ftp root
read-only?

Cheers,
Al.