files permissions

[legend_gibby]

think i have done it......

i restarted the comp.......then it asked me a few to pick so i choise the safe mode then asked to start.......
had to then login.......add password

this was all from a black screen!!!!

then i added the "chown -R root:root /usr" command and it apears to be doing something anyway!!!!!

its changing ownership of folders....so ill let yas know if this works!!

[legend_gibby]

its still going but at the end of everyline its says "operation not permitted"

[legend_gibby]

What he meant was:

Log in as normal, open a terminal.

Type:

chown -R root:root /usr

Or open nautilus normally and change the owner to the root user

the other thing is i couldnt open a terminal or nautilus either.....so i switched off the comp and started it....then was asked for 4 options....i picked the second one safe mode...

then as my other post says.......loging enter password so on and so forth!!

[legend_gibby]

o well that didnt work.......so back to square one!!!!

thanks for all your help dudes!!!

just downloading the software again......to install ubuntu 10.10 again!!!

[oldos2er]

so i use the "gksudo nautilus" change the permission then added the folder.....then tried to change it back by using "gksudo nautilus" but to my surprise......it wouldnt let me

Just so you know, using "gksu nautilus" itself gives you admin access to system folders; it's redundant and dangerous (as you found out) to then change permissions on those folders.