June Van Dyke wrote:
It looks now more and more as if the binary installer under certain circumstances may reduce the permissions of "/" to 700, that is "drwx------". This would explain the inability to boot. By booting into single user mode, this shouldn't be hard to fix. Actually, there is an Apple knowledge base article about such boot problems titled "Mac OS X: Troubleshooting a Startup Issue" atOn 10/29/02 4:23 PM, "Martin Costabel" wrote:>Once when I accidentally removed the x permission for 'others' on the >"/" directory,
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106464
They explain the procedure to repair the permission on "/":
5. Reset certain privileges. Note: This is an advanced step:
a. Start up in Single-User Mode (press and hold the Command-S key combination during startup until white text appears).
b. When the command line appears, type: fsck -y
c. Press Return.
d. Type: mount -uw /
e. Press Return.
f. Type: chmod 1775 /
g. Press Return.
h. Type: reboot
i. Press Return.
>When you were in single user mode, did you look at the root directory to >see whether it appeared OK, that is in particular the following (extract >from "ls -la /"): No, I didn't check those, and should have. I'll see tonight when my father comes home from work to see if they're there. He may have deleted OS X anyways, but I doubt it. Is there any way to check permissions from OS 9?
I don't know. I rather doubt it. -- Martin ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
