Re: changed ownership of / by mistake...
On (20/11/05 22:52), Craig Hagerman wrote:
> Thanks for the replies Gilles and Cameron. I tried the suggestion to do
>
> apt-get --reinstall -u install
>
> and it does seem to have gotten things back ALMOST to where they
> should be. still a couple of obvious problems. I have no sound for
> some reason. I checked and things like /dev/audio0 ARE correct
> (root:audio) now. I get an errror message when I try to open the
> volume control and volume is greyed out on something like totem. Not
> really sure what might still be wrong to prevent audio from
> working....
>
Phew ! bit of a relief :)
> The second thing I have noticed is that the terminal doesn't work. I
> CAN open up the terminal (gui), but there is an error message saying
> "cannon open child process", and the terminal itself is unusable.
> There is no prompt and I can't actually type anything in it. (Still
> going in by ssh from a remote machine.)
>
> Any ideas on these anyone?
>
> By the way Cameron, I did try knoppix, but since it is only a 32 bit
> OS I can't chroot into my existing filesystem. However, there is a
> ubuntu amd64 live CD that I could use to do this. Like Knoppix it is a
> live CD, but unlike it, it comes in 32 and 64 bit versions.
Have a look at Debian From Scratch:
http://people.debian.org/~jgoerzen/dfs/html/
Regards
Clive
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