new sidiction-settings-xfce package seems to be broken

[m-puzirew]

01 July, update of package above completed with an error. After restart my xfce settings (wallpaper, fonts,panels configuration etc) was lost. I had to restore the system from Clonezilla backup. Be careful.
Can the package be safely removed at all?

[convbsd]

Hi,
Pease take a look at siduction-settings-kde install error topic.
It was the same error ( I mean in configure state ) ?
If so almost sure at least one line from /etc/passwd doesn't have 7 fields separated by (:) or you have an empty line at the end of /etc/passwd.
Please fix it and reinstall siduction-settings-xfce.
Thank you.

[m-puzirew]

Thanks, convbsd. I checked my etc/passwd and removed the empty line. But it didn't help (Maybe, because my system is configured to use sudo way  instead of su?). Postinstall script still having a permission problem. Will try on. But, regarding that all, do you think removing the package is the simpliest way? Is it safe?

[convbsd]

Hi,
Do you have on any line from /etc/passwd field separator : six times ?
Thank you.

[m-puzirew]

Yes, on all of them, actually.

root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash
daemon:x:1:1:daemon:/usr/sbin:/bin/sh
bin:x:2:2:bin:/bin:/bin/sh
sys:x:3:3:sys:/dev:/bin/sh
sync:x:4:65534:sync:/bin:/bin/sync
games:x:5:60:games:/usr/games:/bin/sh
man:x:6:12:man:/var/cache/man:/bin/sh
lp:x:7:7:lp:/var/spool/lpd:/bin/sh
mail:x:8:8:mail:/var/mail:/bin/sh
news:x:9:9:news:/var/spool/news:/bin/sh
uucp:x:10:10:uucp:/var/spool/uucp:/bin/sh
proxy:x:13:13:proxy:/bin:/bin/sh
www-data:x:33:33:www-data:/var/www:/bin/sh
backup:x:34:34:backup:/var/backups:/bin/sh
list:x:38:38:Mailing List Manager:/var/list:/bin/sh
irc:x:39:39:ircd:/var/run/ircd:/bin/sh
gnats:x:41:41:Gnats Bug-Reporting System (admin):/var/lib/gnats:/bin/sh
nobody:x:65534:65534:nobody:/nonexistent:/bin/sh
libuuid:x:100:101::/var/lib/libuuid:/bin/sh
messagebus:x:101:106::/var/run/dbus:/bin/false
ntp:x:102:109::/home/ntp:/bin/false
usbmux:x:103:46:usbmux daemon,,,:/home/usbmux:/bin/false
lightdm:x:104:113:Light Display Manager:/var/lib/lightdm:/bin/false
sshd:x:105:65534::/var/run/sshd:/usr/sbin/nologin
statd:x:106:65534::/var/lib/nfs:/bin/false
max:x:1000:1000:Max Puzirew,,,:/home/max:/bin/bash
davfs2:x:107:116::/var/cache/davfs2:/bin/false
bitdefender:x:999:1001::/opt/BitDefender-scanner/:/bin/false

[convbsd]

Hi,
/etc/passwd seems to be ok.
As you say it might be also another problem because you say that you have removed the empty line.
Against what siduction release have you done a d-u ?
Thank you.

[m-puzirew]

riders on the storm. Actually, I don't use d-u, normally I use Synaptic for extra clarity what packages are to upgrade etc. My current version of siduction-settings-xfce is 2013.06.20
P.S. Gonna make newer Clonezilla backup to play around with the update to gather more info.

[m-puzirew]

Here is upgrade output with approximate translation of Russian parts in square brackets. Maybe it will help.

Synaptic output: E: siduction-settings-xfce: подпроцесс установлен сценарий post-installation возвратил код ошибки 1
["subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1"]

Terminal output:
debconf: не удалось инициализировать интерфейс: Gnome
debconf: (Can't locate Gtk2.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.14.2 /usr/local/share/perl/5.14.2 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.14 /usr/share/perl/5.14 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Gnome.pm line 91, <> line 2.)
debconf: будет использован интерфейс: Dialog
Выбор ранее не выбранного пакета siduction-settings-common.
(Чтение базы данных … на данный момент установлено 154868 файлов и каталогов.) [Reading DB ....]
Распаковывается пакет siduction-settings-common (из файла …/siduction-settings-common_2013.06.31.1_all.deb) … [Extracting package ...]
Подготовка к замене пакета siduction-settings-xfce 2013.06.20 (используется файл …/siduction-settings-xfce_2013.06.31.1_all.deb) … [Preparing to replacement of package ...]
Распаковывается замена для пакета siduction-settings-xfce … [Extracting replacement for ....]
Настраивается пакет siduction-settings-common (2013.06.31.1) …
Настраивается пакет siduction-settings-xfce (2013.06.31.1) … [Configuring packages....]
chown: невозможно получить доступ к «/home/max/.gvfs»: Отказано в доступе
[can not access the «/ home / max / .gvfs»: Access Denied]
dpkg: ошибка при обработке параметра siduction-settings-xfce (--configure):
 подпроцесс установлен сценарий post-installation возвратил код ошибки 1
[An error processing parameter siduction-settings-xfce (- configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error 1]
При обработке следующих пакетов произошли ошибки: [While processing following packages errors have occurred:]
 siduction-settings-xfce
W: Ожидалось завершение процесса dpkg --assert-multi-arch, но он не был запущен - dpkgGo (10: Нет дочерних процессов)
[Waited for dpkg - assert-multi-arch to stop, but it was not running - dpkgGo (10: No child processes)]
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Ошибка при установке пакета. Попытка восстановления: [Attempt of recovery ...]
Настраивается пакет siduction-settings-xfce (2013.06.31.1) …
chown: невозможно получить доступ к «/home/max/.gvfs»: Отказано в доступе
dpkg: ошибка при обработке параметра siduction-settings-xfce (--configure):
 подпроцесс установлен сценарий post-installation возвратил код ошибки 1
При обработке следующих пакетов произошли ошибки:
 siduction-settings-xfce [Setting up siduction-settings-xfce (2013.06.31.1) ... chown: can not access the «/ home / max / .gvfs»: Access is denied dpkg: error processing parameter siduction-settings-xfce (- configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error 1 while processing following packages errors have occurred: siduction-settings-xfce]

P.S. gvfs related lines are most suspicious, IMHO (but I'm not an IT specialist).

[convbsd]

Hi
I will investigate the problem and I will try to fix it.
A question please /home/max/.gvfs is chown argument ?
It should be /home/max .
User max is in max group ?
Thank you

[m-puzirew]

Your questions are a bit above my skills. Please give me some hints (comandlines etc) to answer more correctly and more quickly. Thanks.
P.S. Oddly enough, user "Max Puzirew" is NOT in max group now, according to standard gnome "users and groups" utility.

[convbsd]

Hi
"chown: невозможно получить доступ к" means
chown /home/max/.gvfs ?
What output has  ls -l /home/max ?
Thank you

[m-puzirew]

"chown: невозможно получить доступ к «/home/max/.gvfs»" means literally "chown:impossible to get access to «/home/max/.gvfs»"

max@siductionbox:~$ ls -l /home/max
итого 224
-rw-r--r--  1 max max    277 май  2 22:37 1
-rw-r--r--  1 max max   1698 апр 12  2010 bd.key.asc
-rwxrwxrwx  1 max max    232 апр  8 03:19 cliptrans
drwxr-xr-x  2 max max   4096 июн  9 15:12 Desktop
drwx------  2 max max   4096 апр  6 03:33 Downloads
drwxr-xr-x  2 max max   4096 июн 23 14:47 dwhelper
-rwxr-xr-x  1 max max    253 апр 12 01:24 gootrans
-rwxrwxrwx  1 max max   9535 май 27 15:06 iptv.m3u
drwxr-xr-x  2 max max   4096 дек  4  2012 jester chess
-rw-r--r--  1 max max 126788 апр 12  2012 jockey-common_0.9.7-0ubuntu7_all.deb.1
drwxr-xr-x  4 max max   4096 май 10 14:23 MumboJumbo
drwxr-xr-x  5 max max   4096 окт 22  2012 Quake
drwxr-xr-x  2 max max   4096 июл  1 18:51 tmp
-rwxr-xr-x  1 max max    505 апр 11 18:02 transya
-rwxrwxrwx  1 max max    504 апр 11 18:14 transya-1
drwxrwxrwx  2 max max   4096 дек 21  2012 Userjs-2
drwxr-xr-x  2 max max   4096 апр 12 22:29 Видео
drwxr-xr-x  3 max max   4096 июн  3 02:00 Документы
drwxr-xr-x  2 max max   4096 июн 23 17:41 Загрузки
drwxr-xr-x 13 max max   4096 июл  1 04:39 Изображения
drwxr-xr-x  2 max max   4096 июн 16 15:08 Музыка
drwxr-xr-x  2 max max   4096 апр  6 04:39 Общедоступные
drwxr-xr-x  2 max max   4096 апр 11 01:57 Рабочий стол
drwxr-xr-x  2 max max   4096 апр  6 04:39 Шаблоны

Nothing unusual, IMHO. Don't pay attention to some garbage files.
Hmm, should I change the attributes of .gvfs folder? They are dr-x------ (500 in hex)

[convbsd]

I don't know why it fails there.
Maybe it's synaptic fault.

[m-puzirew]

So, I will try "do and see what happens" method several times If unsuccessfull, maybe I will have to remove the package or keep the old version for a while.
Thank you very much, convbsd!

[convbsd]

Please keep old version.
It seems that I must change something in kde and xfce settings.
Thank you.