On Wednesday 03 October 2007 12:38, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 12:12:52PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: > > I got impatient with an aumix error and did 'chmod -R /dev' (and ctl-C'ed > > out of it after ~3 min's.) now I can't become root. Some examples: > > wow, that's ugly. And since it went for ~3mins that's a lot of > chown'ed files. I agree with others, just easier to reinstall or > restore from backup. If you want to fix it as an exercise, try booting > into /bin/bash (add init=/bin/bash to your kernel boot line), and see > what you can fix. It may be possible, I suppose, that you could fix up > the perms/ownership on the right handful of things to allow you to > become root and then you could chroot into the system and essentially > reinstall everything through apt. > > good luck > > A
thanks all for being here. downloading the netinst CD now. tom, the profoundly embarrassed loose cannon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
