Re: su does not work anymore

2020-05-02 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Am Samstag, 2. Mai 2020, 06:32:02 CEST schrieb Andrei POPESCU: > On Vi, 01 mai 20, 22:32:58, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I had an accidential / in a > > > > # chown -R install-user /xyz/dfak / > > > > command. Changing the ownership / recursively is certainly not a good > > idea. >

Re: su does not work anymore

2020-05-02 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2020-05-02 10:57 +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > Am Samstag, 2. Mai 2020, 06:32:02 CEST schrieb Andrei POPESCU: >> On Vi, 01 mai 20, 22:32:58, Rainer Dorsch wrote: >> > Hello, >> > >> > I had an accidential / in a >> > >> > # chown -R install-user /xyz/dfak / >> > >> > command. Changing the owner

Re: su does not work anymore

2020-05-02 Thread The Wanderer
On 2020-05-02 at 06:57, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2020-05-02 10:57 +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > >> Am Samstag, 2. Mai 2020, 06:32:02 CEST schrieb Andrei POPESCU: >>> Ugh. For such situations one should either have good backups or >>> a reasonably fast and automated method of reinstalling the >>>

Re: su does not work anymore

2020-05-02 Thread Carl Fink
On 5/2/20 7:19 AM, The Wanderer wrote: Manual recovery like this *can* be done, but I do not recommend embarking upon it without very strong reason. (In my case, I needed to fix the filenames and permissions of my entire /home partition anyway, and that includes irreplaceable data measuring in te

Re: su does not work anymore

2020-05-02 Thread The Wanderer
On 2020-05-02 at 08:32, Carl Fink wrote: > On 5/2/20 7:19 AM, The Wanderer wrote: > >> Manual recovery like this *can* be done, but I do not recommend >> embarking upon it without very strong reason. (In my case, I needed >> to fix the filenames and permissions of my entire /home partition >> an

Re: su does not work anymore

2020-05-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Saturday 02 May 2020 07:19:13 The Wanderer wrote: > On 2020-05-02 at 06:57, Sven Joachim wrote: > > On 2020-05-02 10:57 +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > >> Am Samstag, 2. Mai 2020, 06:32:02 CEST schrieb Andrei POPESCU: > >>> Ugh. For such situations one should either have good backups or > >>> a r

new installation unable to use

2020-05-02 Thread The7up
Hi Guys! I need your help! I have just installed Debian 10.3 on my computer but is unusable. In the beginning, everything is OK but when I hover over the mouse on my name in the login screen it stopped for a second. When I logged in, everything is OK again, until opening any application. After tha

Re: /etc/default/keyboard not loaded at startup

2020-05-02 Thread gwinship
Thank both of you for your support. However, the dpkg-reconfigure method doesn not fix the issue. I will still have to run the udevadm trigger --subsystem-match=input --action=change command each time I enter a new session. I am aware that in the config it says that the /etc/default/keyboard setti