Re: Re: incomplete update(?) trashed my system
> Personally, I would chown -R user.user the files and directory
> tree-tops I was going to move. That sorts out the permissions
> change. Then I would mv -i ... /home/user (the -i is habit, like
> with rm -i). Because of the directory recursion, it might take a
> while, so mv -iv will give a screaming list of files moved.
I used chown -R user:user . at the top of /root/.cache,
/root/.mozilla, and /root/.claws-mail. When I typed
mv -iv ./.cache /home/<username>, it refused to do anything
because there was already a .cache there. In a reckless mood,
I used rm -R and rmdir to get rid of /home/<user>/.cache,
and then used mv -iv to move .cache from /root. I did the
same with .claws-mail and .mozilla. Some du and df output
after these operations is shown below.
When I typed apt-get update, it seemed to begin as
desired, but quickly stopped with the message
> Error: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.
> PermissionsInvalid: The permission of the setuid helper is not correct
I hope there's a simple fix. Thanks again!
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Output from df
Filesystem blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs 330215 172261 140905 56% /
udev 10240 0 10240 0% /dev
tmpfs 400736 684 400052 1% /run
/dev/disk/by-uuid/ 330215 172261 140905 56% /
0923b264-3863-4302-b3a3-23fd36f4ab8e
tmpfs 5120 0 5120 0% /run/lock
tmpfs 2457460 0 2457460 0% /run/shm
/dev/sda10 176581224 1255260 166356136 1% /home
/dev/sda9 376807 10265 347086 3% /tmp
/dev/sda6 8649992 5981124 2229472 73% /usr
/dev/sda7 2882592 473660 2262500 18% /var
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Output from du --max-depth 1 /root
21 /root/.pki
891 /root/.gstreamer-0.10
4 /root/.pulse
1 /root/Pictures
11 /root/.gconf
1 /root/Music
4 /root/.dbus
1504 /root/.config
52 /root/.gnupg
1 /root/Downloads
3 /root/.mission-control
279 /root/.local
428 /root/.gimp-2.8
1 /root/Templates
1 /root/Videos
28 /root/.gnash
48 /root/.scid
1 /root/Desktop
1 /root/Public
3 /root/.gnome2
11 /root/.aptitude
8 /root/.thumbnails
2 /root/.emacs.d
1 /root/.gvfs
1 /root/Documents
1 /root/.gnome2_private
55 /root/.texmf-var
3617 /root
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