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X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::11 X-Spam-Score: -4.0 (----) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: submit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 17:09:04 -0500 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -4.0 (----) This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------030406010802030807060002 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I found this web site - http://linuxg.net/how-to-change-file-and-folder-permissions-with-chmod-part-1/ - to learn a terminal command to change permission to a usr/share/ folder so I could install a pidgin theme folder in pidgin directory but, obviously, without knowing what I was doing, Mint 15 got broken with that. I entered the following command: sudo chmod -R u-x,g-x,o-rwx usr/share/ And now booting Mint will give me gibberish dialog windows in an empty black background. Either Nemo or Cinnamon is not working correctly and I would like to restore it back to its original setup. I'm guessing the way to fix this is enter a command restoring all permissions to default in "drop to root shell prompt" in recovery mode. Thankfully, I have also Ubuntu 13 installed in the same desktop PC so I could write this message, because Mint 15 is totally unusable. How do I fix this or where do I ask for help? Thanks for reading and hope to hear from you soon. Denise. --------------030406010802030807060002 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I found this web site - http://linuxg.net/how-to-change-file-and-folder-permissions-with-chmod-part-1/ -  to learn a terminal command to change permission to a usr/share/ folder so I could install a pidgin theme folder in pidgin directory but, obviously, without knowing what I was doing, Mint 15 got broken with that.

I entered the following command:
sudo chmod -R u-x,g-x,o-rwx usr/share/

And now booting Mint will give me gibberish dialog windows in an empty black background.

Either Nemo or Cinnamon is not working correctly and I would like to restore it back to its original setup.

I'm guessing the way to fix this is enter a command restoring all permissions to default in "drop to root shell prompt" in recovery mode.

Thankfully, I have also Ubuntu 13 installed in the same desktop PC so I could write this message, because Mint 15 is totally unusable.

How do I fix this or where do I ask for help?

Thanks for reading and hope to hear from you soon.

Denise.
--------------030406010802030807060002-- From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Tue Dec 10 18:43:16 2013 Received: (at 16104-done) by debbugs.gnu.org; 10 Dec 2013 23:43:17 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42446 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VqWxQ-0007lG-Jw for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 18:43:16 -0500 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.187]:50505) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VqWxO-0007l5-1Z for 16104-done@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 10 Dec 2013 18:43:14 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.11] (p5499C1A7.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [84.153.193.167]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrbap1) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0Ldbso-1V7oHk1K1S-00i2Vz; Wed, 11 Dec 2013 00:43:10 +0100 Message-ID: <52A7A6CE.5000909@bernhard-voelker.de> Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 00:42:06 +0100 From: Bernhard Voelker User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130329 Thunderbird/17.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Denise Subject: Re: bug#16104: Desktop Linux Mint 15 Olivia is broken due to chmod permission changes References: <52A78BD9.3090701@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <52A78BD9.3090701@yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:263wT0fG1QZPVZu0fyGaaLy2qxrQ0V9tT5nX6lmO4kB QgClxQ4l+6FSASiH4Xyd+qL0HAvlJKsuRQg/Spmum9YIOQd/i1 rvFk5DEfaslo28hTCw88HkR4dM5Cssm61s3ugqPNQ1tS5OldXY J3188mlbKfzWsyHyTo3hk6/vdImcNvNkPFEdumWh9nVbirbIP+ HQVz9Qbw7q0QOK+k9qswv8bjS4DTzSCXm7xbdU0Kd2o5YF2LFV +Zvs+8fVkJBb7vW+FMC+YEO/80Zylv0wH246W0dL/OI2dtALbt qLrc1SYGiPHGQZcJHI1Bzi5f3Ed4qbjyUe7mBA0Xzomfu3aff9 9e6h/+8bgXFiwdk+BrCmMcwLNYZ/FnNwJOdTwaG8A X-Spam-Score: -0.0 (/) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 16104-done Cc: contact@linuxg.net, 16104-done@debbugs.gnu.org X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -0.0 (/) tag 16104 notabug thanks On 12/10/2013 10:47 PM, Denise wrote: > sudo chmod -R u-x,g-x,o-rwx usr/share/ outch. Thanks for the bug report, however, as you might already know, this is not a bug in coreutils' chmod but rather an issue in the way you used it. Therefore, I'm marking this bug as done. Okay, back to your case. To get your system back to work, you should understand what the above command did. Read about it. To restore the permissions, your best bet would be a backup. With this, you could go there and run a command line like the following to change the permission back to what they have been in that backup. $ cd /backup/usr/share $ find . -exec chmod -v --reference="{}" "/usr/share/{}" \; But again, please first read the documentation of the involved programs to understand what happened and what you are doing, at least: $ info coreutils 'chmod invocation' Have a nice day, Berny From unknown Mon Aug 18 02:38:44 2025 Received: (at fakecontrol) by fakecontrolmessage; To: internal_control@debbugs.gnu.org From: Debbugs Internal Request Subject: Internal Control Message-Id: bug archived. Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2014 12:24:04 +0000 User-Agent: Fakemail v42.6.9 # This is a fake control message. # # The action: # bug archived. thanks # This fakemail brought to you by your local debbugs # administrator