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Moderator♦ pro tempore on French Language and Usage and Computer Science. I'm also a unix amateur, and a developer with a computer science background and security leanings by trade.

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comment unable to create `/etc/skel/.bash_logout.dpkg-new': No such file or directory
@minihydra Hmmm, this behavior makes no sense. What's the output of cat /proc/mounts, just to make sure there's nothing bad there? I recommend doing a memory test (choose “memory test” at the boot prompt, let it run for a few hours (at least one full pass)), then a filesystem check (fsck -n /dev/sda1, or wherever / is mounted).
May
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comment unable to create `/etc/skel/.bash_logout.dpkg-new': No such file or directory
@minihydra Have you activated another security framework beyond Apparmor (e.g. SELinux)? What's the error message if you do sudo rmdir /etc/skel? Does mv /etc/skel /etc/skel.weird work, and afterwards, can you rmdir /etc/skel.weird?
May
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comment unable to create `/etc/skel/.bash_logout.dpkg-new': No such file or directory
@minihydra Hmmm, there's really something weird with your /etc/skel. What about ls -ld /etc/skel? If you do sudo mv /etc/skel /etc/skel.weird && sudo mkdir -m 755 /etc/skel, does it work, and does it solve the problem? Does grep -r skel /etc/apparmor* return anything?
May
14
comment Did I just delete everything with find -exec mv?
@PaddyLandau Indeed, this was a really bad copy-paste or edit failure. Thanks for the report.
May
14
revised Did I just delete everything with find -exec mv?
added missing / in mv examples (thanks Paddy Landau)
May
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comment unable to create `/etc/skel/.bash_logout.dpkg-new': No such file or directory
@minihydra What happens if you run sudo touch /etc/skel/foo? It may be due to a corrupted package: did you try sudo apt-get clean; sudo apt-get --reinstall install bash?
May
14
awarded  Good Answer
May
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comment unable to create `/etc/skel/.bash_logout.dpkg-new': No such file or directory
@minihydra That's weird. What about ls -la /etc/skel ?
May
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reviewed Approve suggested edit on Is there a way to find the executable name for an application so I can launch it in a terminal?
May
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reviewed Reject suggested edit on preinstallation tag wiki excerpt
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reviewed Approve suggested edit on Ugly fonts in Netbeans - How can i make it use the system font?
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awarded  Enlightened
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awarded  Nice Answer
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answered will apt-get autoremove break other dependencies?
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reviewed Approve suggested edit on nautilus-script tag wiki excerpt
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awarded  Nice Answer
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answered Did I just delete everything with find -exec mv?
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reviewed Approve suggested edit on Unable to run *.sh files by directly double clicking the file in 13.04
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answered unable to create `/etc/skel/.bash_logout.dpkg-new': No such file or directory
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revised unable to create `/etc/skel/.bash_logout.dpkg-new': No such file or directory
added 22 characters in body; edited tags; edited title