On Sat, Nov 06, 2021 at 07:35:22AM +0800, Jeremy Ardley wrote: > On 6/11/21 7:17 am, Thomas George wrote: > > I have found mkdir in /usr/bin and changed the ownership to root:tom and > > given it rwx permissions but this does not solve the problem.
> Try > > sudo passwd root > > And reset the root password to a known string And after you do that, change the ownership and permissions of /usr/bin/mkdir back to what they are supposed to be: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 85184 Sep 24 2020 mkdir If that wasn't what they were originally, then your system is severely broken, and all bets are off.
