I recently fat-fingered a permissions change in my /home/randy
folder. When I check permissions by booting off a live session cd I see user is 1000. I can't gain access to it. Is all lost?
Hey Guys, I tried these. I wasn't able to boot into the grub menu. When I press and hold the left shift key during boot it just keeps booting normally. If I push it too early it brings up a "keyboard" error. I can get into the terminal per wayzhc and Pilot6 instructions. I run the command
sudo chown -R randy:randy /home/randy
It asks for my password. I give it. I accepts it. It runs it but then I have to shut down as when I use the CtrlAltF7 it goes back to the screen I got after I clicked out of the message windows. When I boot normally it still gives the same error which is... right after I enter user name and password during normal boot I get these 3 messages... First
Could not update ICEauthority file /home/randy/.ICEauthority
Then I get
There is a problem with the configuration server. (/usr/lib/libgconf2-4/gconfig-sanity-check-2 exited with status 256)
Last I get...
Nautilus could not create the following required folders:/home/randy/Desktop,/home/randy/.nuatilus. (before running Nautilus, please create these folders or set permissions such that Nautilus can create them.)
Remember I'm running 10.04 LTS I'm very inexperienced at Ubuntu even though I've run it for years. It's been problem free for me until I tried to change the permissions of a photo folder. That's when the problem started. I'm VERY inexperienced at using the terminal.
By the way... when I ran the line
getent passwd 1000
per muru's request it returned this.
randy:x:1000:1000:Randy Thibeau,,,:/home/randy:bin/bash
Whatever that all means!
getent passwd 1000
say (from a normal boot)?ls -al /home/randy/.ICEauthority
andls -lad /home/randy/