[Wylug-help] Mandrake has seriously screwed up just by doing media updates

[C.Mackins at Bradford.ac.uk]

Quoting Anne Wilson <cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk>:

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> Try Ed's solution:
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> <quote>
> I just had this problem, but it had NOTHING to do with updating, it did have
> to do with me messing with the permissions during a (root) konqueror session.
> I thought I was only looking at properties/permissions for
> a /home/user/public_html folder, but had /home permissions/properties window
> up. I changed all the permission for /home to no one other than owner can
> read.
> the quick and dirty cure..
> log in as root
> change msec to any other level than what it was (in my case, I changed from
> standard (msec 2) to msec 4 just by typing 'msec 4' and hitting enter without
> the quotes.
> then I changed back to 'msec 2',  just by typing 'msec 2' and hitting enter
> without the quotes.
>  reboot, and he should be 'good to go'...
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>
> Let me know what happens
>
> Anne
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Hi Anne, thanks again.

Well, earlier I changed my mirrors and did the urpmi update as suggested - but
nothing in the way of lost apps/work returned.

I opened a console, did su>root and tried changing the msec values from 4 to 3,
3 to 2, but again nothing has changed - I still have lost my apps/all work and
the shell prompt still remains as 'bash-2.05b$'

This is so bizzare as I was not doing anything else at all, other than trying to
install updates through the MCC when all this occured.

Thanks again for you help, though I now feel that my system is probably beyond
repair.



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