I had the same problem, but I think it was due to a failing of the upgrade manager during installation. A by-hand "apt-get update" and "dpkg-configure -a" did not all the stuff the update manager would have made I guess. Especially evms was not reinstalled, so that the udevd was making trouble, maybe the restart of changed the permissions of /dev/null - but I am not sure.
A reboot helped and I guess a "sudo chmod 0666 /dev/null" would help too. Regards, sandoz -- upgrade Feisty to Gutsy gnome startup failed due wrong /dev/null permission https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/122062 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