Unable to run update manager

[macwales]

Put in chmod -v 0755 /home/$mintUpdate

got back:-


chmod: changing permissions of ‘/home/’: Operation not permitted
failed to change mode of ‘/home/’ from 0755 (rwxr-xr-x) to 0755 (rwxr-xr-x)

Cheers

Mac

[WharfRat]

Put in chmod -v 0755 /home/$mintUpdate

Where did you get that from I gave you

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chmod -v 0755 /home/$USER

[Spearmint2]

just confirming he has the same mintupdate I have.

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mint16@mint16 /var/cache/apt/archives $ ls mintupdate*
mintupdate_4.6.7_all.deb
mint16@mint16 /var/cache/apt/archives $ md5sum mintupdate_4.6.7_all.deb
52f8cabcc83be0ba32fdeb8b7ff2363b  mintupdate_4.6.7_all.deb

This may not be pertinent to current problem, but definitely is important for mintupdate.

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mint16@mint16 /var/cache/apt/archives $ cd /etc/sudoers.d

mint16@mint16 /etc/sudoers.d $ ls
mintupdate  README

mint16@mint16 /etc/sudoers.d $ sudo cat README
[sudo] password for mint16: 

#
# As of Debian version 1.7.2p1-1, the default /etc/sudoers file created on
# installation of the package now includes the directive:
# 
# 	#includedir /etc/sudoers.d
# 
# This will cause sudo to read and parse any files in the /etc/sudoers.d 
# directory that do not end in '~' or contain a '.' character.
# 
# Note that there must be at least one file in the sudoers.d directory (this
# one will do), and all files in this directory should be mode 0440.
# 
# Note also, that because sudoers contents can vary widely, no attempt is 
# made to add this directive to existing sudoers files on upgrade.  Feel free
# to add the above directive to the end of your /etc/sudoers file to enable 
# this functionality for existing installations if you wish!
#
# Finally, please note that using the visudo command is the recommended way
# to update sudoers content, since it protects against many failure modes.
# See the man page for visudo for more information.
#

mint16@mint16 /etc/sudoers.d $ sudo cat mintupdate
# Allow any user to check for new system updates without
# requiring user authentication.

Cmnd_Alias UPDATE = /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintUpdate/checkAPT.py

ALL ALL = NOPASSWD:UPDATE

mint16@mint16 /etc/sudoers.d $ 

[macwales]

WharfRat

Hi sorry for my mistake. I had tried a few things following your last post. Now I have put in
chmod -v 0755 /home/$USER
got

mode of ‘/home/xxxx’ retained as 0755 (rwxr-xr-x)

ran 'mintupdate' and got

[Errno 5] Input/output error: '/home/xxxx/.config/linuxmint/mintUpdate.conf'

Put in my user name instead of 'USER' then ran mintupdate and got

[Errno 5] Input/output error: '/home/xxxx/.config/linuxmint/mintUpdate.conf'


Spearmint2

I put in

mint16@mint16 /var/cache/apt/archives $ ls mintupdate*
mintupdate_4.6.7_all.deb
mint16@mint16 /var/cache/apt/archives $ md5sum mintupdate_4.6.7_all.deb
52f8cabcc83be0ba32fdeb8b7ff2363b mintupdate_4.6.7_all.deb

got back

xxxx@Whitebook ~ $ mint16@mint16 /var/cache/apt/archives $ ls mintupdate*
mint16@mint16: command not found
xxxx@Whitebook ~ $ mintupdate_4.6.7_all.deb
mintupdate_4.6.7_all.deb: command not found
xxxx@Whitebook ~ $ mint16@mint16 /var/cache/apt/archives $ md5sum mintupdate_4.6.7_all.deb
mint16@mint16: command not found
xxxx@Whitebook ~ $ 52f8cabcc83be0ba32fdeb8b7ff2363b mintupdate_4.6.7_all.

then put in

mint16@mint16 /var/cache/apt/archives $ cd /etc/sudoers.d

mint16@mint16 /etc/sudoers.d $ ls
mintupdate README

mint16@mint16 /etc/sudoers.d $ sudo cat README
[sudo] password for mint16:

#
# As of Debian version 1.7.2p1-1, the default /etc/sudoers file created on
# installation of the package now includes the directive:
#
# #includedir /etc/sudoers.d

got

xxxx@Whitebook ~ $ mint16@mint16 /var/cache/apt/archives $ cd /etc/sudoers.d
mint16@mint16: command not found
xxxx@Whitebook ~ $
xxxx@Whitebook ~ $ mint16@mint16 /etc/sudoers.d $ ls
mint16@mint16: command not found
xxxx@Whitebook ~ $ mintupdate README
xxxx@Whitebook ~ $
xxxx@Whitebook ~ $ mint16@mint16 /etc/sudoers.d $ sudo cat README
[Errno 5] Input/output error: '/home/xxxx/.config/linuxmint/mintUpdate.conf'
mint16@mint16: command not found
xxxx@Whitebook ~ $ [sudo] password for mint16:
[sudo]: command not found
xxxx@Whitebook ~ $
xxxx@Whitebook ~ $ #
xxxx@Whitebook ~ $ # As of Debian version 1.7.2p1-1, the default /etc/sudoers file created on
xxxx@Whitebook ~ $ # installation of the package now includes the directive:
xxxx@Whitebook ~ $ #
xxxx@Whitebook ~ $ # #includedir /etc/sudoers.

Cheers
Mac

[Spearmint2]

why did you do that? I didn't say to put in terminal and try to run it. I was showing you what I did in terminal. Maybe we should start using something other than a code box to show that if people are going to think it's something they need to run instead? Thankfully no harm was done by it. Furthermore it was intended for Wharfrat, wish now I'd made that clearer.