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I'm using x64 Ubuntu. A few months ago I accidentally messed up the groups/owners of all files on /, but managed to fix it using a VirtualBox install of Ubuntu.

Now I'm running into a problem that I think is related to that mistake. When I try to reinstall ia32-libs (Skype is having problems so I need to reinstall those libs) I get an error message:

/var/lib/dpkg/info/ia32-libs.postinst: 40: /usr/lib32/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders: Permission denied

ls -al /usr/lib32/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/` is this:

total 476
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root   4096 2011-09-24 17:08 .
drwxr-xr-x 53 root root 143360 2011-09-24 17:08 ..
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root     40 2011-09-24 04:44 2.10.0
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   9648 2011-04-05 00:40 gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders

I have tried to reinstall gdk-pixbuff-2.0, but it didn't work. How can I fix this?

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Run ldd /usr/lib32/gdk-pixbuf-2.0//gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders and make sure every file is accounted for (the line must end with an address like (0xf7789000)). In particular, check the permissions on the dynamic loader /lib/ld-linux.so.2. This is the only file in the lot that could cause that particular error message, but you may need to fix other permissions while you're at it.

chown root:root /lib*/*
chmod a+rx /lib*/ld-* /lib*/*/
chmod -R a+r /lib
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Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
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  • AAA IT WORKED! :) When i run "ldd" first time (as su or normal user) command i get result "not a dynamic executable" but then i performed those "chown" commands you specified and then "ldd" worked as a charm AND ia32-libs GOT RE INSTALLED WITHOUT ERROR! :) THENK YOU KIND SIR :) – BoPe Sep 25 '11 at 12:41