On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 06:20:05PM -0500, B Thomas wrote: > Hi, > I am using debian 2.2 with kernel 2.2.19 and am having the folling > problem : when I log in as root and use dpkg or apt every thing works fine > . But if I log in a normal user and "su -" to root the dpkg or apt gives > errors as below. Could you please point me to what is going wrong and how > may I correct it.
I had recent simliar problems, after upgrade (via sudo) I restarted many services and some were unable to work. I found that was ulimits problem. Maybe you have (as I had) lshell package installed. Mirek