I have run into an issue with file permissions. I am running OpenSolaris inside a VirtualBox environment.
I have a user called admin. I was logged in as admin and did a "su root". While being logged in as root, I accidentally executed a "chmod 777" on /export/home/admin After restarting the Virtual machine, there was an error message stating that the permissions on "/export/home/admin" should be 644. This time, while logged in as 'admin', I tried to execute "chmod 644" on "/export/home/admin" and restarted the machine. Now I have a condition where I cannot even log in to my machine. On entering the 'admin' credentials, I get an error message "Could not update ICEauthority file /export/home/admin/.ICEauthority" followed by the error "There is a problem with the Configuration Server. (usr/lib/gconf-sanity-check-2 exited with status 256)". This is followed by a blank screen and the Virtual Machine never loads. How can I salvage the situation? Any help greatly appreciated! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
