You are right. Actually I just thought that these kind of I/O errors might (?) also happen when users have permission problems, so I opened a bug here: http://code.google.com/p/specto/issues/detail?id=79
(launchpad needs to be able to track google code. hint hint :) ** Changed in: specto (Ubuntu) Status: Invalid => Confirmed -- specto crashed with IOError in check_instance() https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/150957 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs