Gufw

On enable, error in changing status

Asked by John Rose

I'm using Ubuntu Hardy.I've installed Gufw 0.20.0 on a desktop & a laptop. On the desktop, It's good. On the laptop, I'm not able to enable the firewall: it comes up with 'Error changing status firewall'. I've tried uninstalling & re-installing Gufw, but same happens. Can you tell me what's gone wrong and how I should correct it?

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Vadim Peretokin (vperetokin) said : 		#1

Can you go to File-Gufw log, and paste the log here?

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John Rose (johnaaronrose) said : 		#2

The File - Gufw log menu option is grayed out. I've tried dmesg|grep ufw, but that shows nothing as do similar checks on syslog, kern.log.

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costales (costales) said : 		#3

Hi!
I think is a bad instalation of ufw :O
https://bugs.launchpad.net/gui-ufw/+bug/251935
Can you verify the solutions?
Thanks a lot!

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John Rose (johnaaronrose) said : 		#4

I've uninstalled ufw & re-installed as per the bug's instructions. However, this did not allow me to run gufw. So I uninstalled gufw and then re-installed by running debi installer on the downloaded package from the gufw website. Still get 'Error on status change'. I've tried changing the enabled=no to enabled=yes in /etc/gufw/gufw.conf. with no success. Any ideas?

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costales (costales) said : 		#5

Hi!
Can you do this? (In terminal)
sudo ufw enable
sudo ufw disable

And say me the result of test ;)
Thanks!

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John Rose (johnaaronrose) said : 		#6

Results are:

administrator@JohnLaptop:~$ sudo ufw enable
ERROR: uid is 0 but '/usr' is owned by 1000
administrator@JohnLaptop:~$ sudo ufw disable
ERROR: uid is 0 but '/usr' is owned by 1000
administrator@JohnLaptop:~$

PS root's user id is 0; administrator's user id is 1000.

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Best costales (costales) said : 		#7

Hi!
Is a problem of owner of /usr ;)
Run this command in terminal:
sudo chown root.root /usr
If change the folder '/usr' in other error, change it in the command ;)
Please, say us the result :D
Thanks!

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John Rose (johnaaronrose) said : 		#8

Thanks Marcos Alvarez Costales, that solved my question.

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costales (costales) said : 		#9

Thanks you by use GNU/Linux ;D