Quoting D. R. Evans (doc.ev...@gmail.com): > D. R. Evans wrote on 08/25/2015 01:56 PM: > > I am trying to upgrade my main desktop machine, but the process is halting > > with an error, after all the packages are downloaded and half an hour or so > > of > > actual installation: > > > > > Error: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.PermissionsInvalid: The > > permission of the setuid helper is not correct > > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > > > At this point, I am getting the same error if I simply do: > apt-get update > > after listing the "hit" and "ignore" packages, I see: > Error: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.PermissionsInvalid: The > permission of the setuid helper is not correct
In the absence of any better suggestions so far, have you tried running # dpkg --configure -a which will try to configure unconfigured packages without trying to install more. The other command that's useful for giving an upgrade a kick up the proverbial is # apt-get -f install but with that one you have to be watchful over what it might try to UNinstall. It can help if the presence of one or two packages is causing a logjam. Unfortunately the last error (which you've repeated in this posting) doesn't look familiar to me, so if it's still there after trying to fix the earlier errors, some judicious reinstalling with dpkg might be worth trying. But I would repost with more info first. BTW, can't help asking if you were running X during the upgrade. To help you, others may need to know things like, are you still running the wheezy kernel or have you rebooted into a new one, which versions of aptitude/apt/dpkg are running, and so on. Cheers, David.
