On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 1:07 PM, Bruce Hyatt <brucejhyatt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I carelessly executed "chmod 666 ///" from a terminal as su in a > user account. It caused various problems because of permissions, > of course. > > I rebooted, logged into root and executed "chmod 777 ///" which > enabled me to log into my account but when I tried to start > xwindows I wound up with a blank screen. Same thing with root > account. > > Anyone know what I can do to get back to "normal?" Can't say I've tried it on every rpmm, but this may get some things back to normal: rpm -qa | xargs rpm ----setperms --setugids
