Hi Derek, You still living in Japan? In any case, problem solved. At this point, I wanted to solve the problem rather than reinstall, but backing up /home and reinstalling Fedora 23 would probably have been much less challenging. It also gave me a chance to become more familiar with systemd.
On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 2:52 PM, Derek Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 11:34:06AM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote: > > I somehow messed up one of my Fedora 23 systems where all the setuid bits > > got cleared. I have since fixed just about all of them. But, the one > issue > > remains is that I can't boot into the graphical.target (formerly run > level > > 5). I have since set the default target to multiuser.target (formerly run > > level 3). I then log in and startx. I'm sure I missed setting a setuid > bit > > somewhere. > > This is the sort of thing that system back-ups are useful for... also > the package managers generally have functionality for this now, and > there are some system tools that you can use to verify the ownerships > and permissions of installed packages. I think you might get what you > want with: > > yum verify-all > > But I haven't run Fedora in quite a while and my memory is very hazy. > > Though to be honest the way I generally handle this kind of problem > these days is to keep /home on a separate partition, and just do a > fresh install when things go bad (which, since this is Linux, happens > exceedingly rarely). > > -- > Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 > -=-=-=-=- > This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will > result in > undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience. > > -- -- Jerry Feldman <[email protected]> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: B7F14F2F Key fingerprint: D937 A424 4836 E052 2E1B 8DC6 24D7 000F B7F1 4F2F _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
