I am writing from memory here, as I have no time at this stage to replicate the problem. If you think it's necessary, please let me know and I'll make time in due course.
However: Those executables (and a few others) had permissions set to 000. Because the executable bit wasn't set, modprobe and friends couldn't load modules so critical pieces of hardware (keyboard and mouse, amongst others) couldn't be used. So I mispoke when I said the machine wouldn't boot. It did boot, but was left unusable. This happened several times and I had to boot with a rescue disk (or to recovery mode) to change the permissions back. The permissions would have changed back to the 000 by the next boot. When I reran Bastille and changed the File Permissions question to 'No' the permissions stopped changing value. To be honest, my (limited) understanding of Bastille suggests that it isn't the culprit, but changing it seems to be the only thing that works, and the existence of this bug suggests I'm not the only one to have had the problem! Cameron Horsburgh blog: http://spiritcry.wordpress.com 2010/4/6 Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <[email protected]> > tags 545052 moreinfo > thanks > > On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 08:05:44PM +1100, Cameron Horsburgh wrote: > > Bastille seems to have nobbled some fairly critical executables on my > > machine, amongst them: > > > > /sbin/insmod/ > > /sbin/modprobe/ > > /sbin/depmod > > Bastille doesn't touch any file permission unless you instruct it to do it. > If these executables' permissions have been modified is because you > answered > "YES" to the question ""Would you like to set more restrictive permissions > on > the administration utilities?" (default is 'NO'). > > The permissions set for these should have been set to '0750'. I.e. no > executable bit for users, but root (and users in the root group) should > still > be able to execute them. > > Could you please send me the current permissions for these executables and > tell me why does your system not boot? It should even if these are > restricted > to only the roout user. > > Regards > > Javier > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFLunf9sandgtyBSwkRAtK4AKCHZNVNIaqmdiUA+auAjOHTud8CUwCdHldM > 5OdxH5oxHzIoZKtHnNWGn3M= > =Bg5/ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >
