Re: X server appears mishap

2009-05-08 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 04:41:12AM -0400, Ben Badgley wrote: > (Who now understands that chmod -R 770 / may not be a wise idea.) : #1. As others pointed out, if this was done by root, reinstall system after backing up your data. #2. If you need to change permission of package owned file

Re: X server appears mishap

2009-05-07 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4a029ea8.3040...@peoplepc.com>, Ben Badgley wrote: >(Who now understands that chmod -R 770 / may not be a wise idea.) :) Actually, if you didn't run this as root, it might be mostly fixable with: chmod -R +X / If you did run it as root, well, that installation is b0rked. -- Boyd Stephen Smith

Re: X server appears mishap

2009-05-07 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4a029ea8.3040...@peoplepc.com>, Ben Badgley wrote: >(Who now understands that chmod -R 770 / may not be a wise idea.) :) If you seriously did this, just reinstall. It will be easier than fixing things. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net

X server appears mishap

2009-05-07 Thread Ben Badgley
Not sure this qualifies as a bug report, so please do not assume it is that. I am having trouble with the display. I was using terminal under gnome2 and doing perceived 'safe' L/Unix commands dealing with file permissions. Apparently, the commands may not have been as safe as I thought. "D'o