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Tasklist

FS#11 - gdm directories not chgrp'd

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Sean Middleditch (elanthis) - Friday, 04 October 2002, 23:41 GMT
Last edited by Sean Middleditch (elanthis) - Saturday, 05 October 2002, 03:16 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Current
Status Closed
Assigned To Sean Middleditch (elanthis)
Architecture All
Severity High
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.6 Widget
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 0%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

GDM requires several files and directories to be owned by nobody.gdm. These are not being done properly, and thus GDM refuses to run.
This task depends upon

Closed by  Anonymous Submitter

Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Sean Middleditch (elanthis) - Saturday, 05 October 2002, 02:16 GMT
This happens on upgrade - the new tarballs is unpacked as root.root. I've modifed the post_upgrade() function to properly chown the firector /opt/gnome/var/gdm as GDM so wishes it to be. Uploaded in gdm-2.4.0.11-3

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