Re: Permissions on /etc/sudoers messed up - reflash?
To wrap it up: Meego let me down, I finally reflashed. The problem was the ubifs used on the maemo root. Couldn't get it mounted in meego. Most of the backup-restore worked fine, a bunch of apps are missing. So, no way to access the rootfs without maemo; mission failed. -- Philipp Haselwarter ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Permissions on /etc/sudoers messed up - reflash?
PH == Paul Hartman paul.hartman+ma...@gmail.com writes: PH On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Philipp Haselwarter PH philipp.haselwar...@gmx.de wrote: I chmod 0640'ed /etc/sudoers on my N900 and closed the terminal -.- sudo gainroot/chmod/... fails complaining about the permissions, the gui package manager does so silently. Can't mount the filesystem root offline on another device to chmod 0440 back (?), can't login as root locally, ssh to localhost seems to work but I don't have the slightest idea about the root password. Any way to avoid a reflash? PH The root password should be the one you created when you installed PH the rootsh package. If you forgot it, then... ...I'm kind of screwed, right. PH I have not tried it, but you might be able to use a rescue initrd PH like the one described here to gain access to your rootfs: PH http://wiki.meego.com/ARM/N900/Using_Rescue_Initrd Got it booted, but it seems that the rescue initrd doesn't contain chmod. Too bad. Furthermore I had a really hard time with the keyboard; the only keys I was able to use were [a-zA-Z], no dashes, no slashes (the modifier key seems to just get ignored). Maybe I could use the chmod on the rootfs? Still, if I can neither type -w nor 440 that's no use. PH There are also a few things that could have helped, had you PH installed them ahead of time, like backupmenu, or if you have PH NITdroid or MeeGo in a dual-boot environment you might be able to PH use them to edit your file permissions. PH Good luck! thanks! -- Philipp Haselwarter ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Permissions on /etc/sudoers messed up - reflash?
MZ == Matan Ziv-Av ma...@svgalib.org writes: ---8---[snipped 11 lines]---8--- MZ You can boot another system. For example Meego: MZ 1. Download any u-boot image (for example the one from here: MZ http://al.robotfuzz.com/~al/maemo/u-boot/u-boot.bin ) and flash it MZ (as a kernel): MZ flasher-3.5 -f -k u-boot.bin MZ 2. Prepare a uSD card for meego according to instructions here: MZ http://wiki.meego.com/ARM/N900/Install/MMC Right now I'm trying to get someone to borrow me a microSD card that can hold the image; the smallest one seems to be ~1.8GB and I only have a 1GB card. Are there smaller images available that I missed? MZ 3. Boot into meego, mount the N900 root filesystem (ubifs on mtd5), MZ and fix the problem MZ 4. Reflash kernel by downloading the firmware image and using the MZ command MZ flasher-3.5 -f -F RX-51_2009SE_20.2010.36-2_PR_COMBINED_MR0_ARM.bin MZ --flash-only=kernel -- Philipp Haselwarter ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Permissions on /etc/sudoers messed up - reflash?
I chmod 0640'ed /etc/sudoers on my N900 and closed the terminal -.- sudo gainroot/chmod/... fails complaining about the permissions, the gui package manager does so silently. Can't mount the filesystem root offline on another device to chmod 0440 back (?), can't login as root locally, ssh to localhost seems to work but I don't have the slightest idea about the root password. Any way to avoid a reflash? -- Philipp Haselwarter ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Permissions on /etc/sudoers messed up - reflash?
On Sat, 22 Jan 2011, Philipp Haselwarter wrote: I chmod 0640'ed /etc/sudoers on my N900 and closed the terminal -.- sudo gainroot/chmod/... fails complaining about the permissions, the gui package manager does so silently. Can't mount the filesystem root offline on another device to chmod 0440 back (?), can't login as root locally, ssh to localhost seems to work but I don't have the slightest idea about the root password. Any way to avoid a reflash? You can boot another system. For example Meego: 1. Download any u-boot image (for example the one from here: http://al.robotfuzz.com/~al/maemo/u-boot/u-boot.bin ) and flash it (as a kernel): flasher-3.5 -f -k u-boot.bin 2. Prepare a uSD card for meego according to instructions here: http://wiki.meego.com/ARM/N900/Install/MMC 3. Boot into meego, mount the N900 root filesystem (ubifs on mtd5), and fix the problem 4. Reflash kernel by downloading the firmware image and using the command flasher-3.5 -f -F RX-51_2009SE_20.2010.36-2_PR_COMBINED_MR0_ARM.bin --flash-only=kernel -- Matan Ziv-Av. ma...@svgalib.org ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Permissions on /etc/sudoers messed up - reflash?
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Philipp Haselwarter philipp.haselwar...@gmx.de wrote: I chmod 0640'ed /etc/sudoers on my N900 and closed the terminal -.- sudo gainroot/chmod/... fails complaining about the permissions, the gui package manager does so silently. Can't mount the filesystem root offline on another device to chmod 0440 back (?), can't login as root locally, ssh to localhost seems to work but I don't have the slightest idea about the root password. Any way to avoid a reflash? The root password should be the one you created when you installed the rootsh package. If you forgot it, then... I have not tried it, but you might be able to use a rescue initrd like the one described here to gain access to your rootfs: http://wiki.meego.com/ARM/N900/Using_Rescue_Initrd There are also a few things that could have helped, had you installed them ahead of time, like backupmenu, or if you have NITdroid or MeeGo in a dual-boot environment you might be able to use them to edit your file permissions. Good luck! ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
Re: Permissions on /etc/sudoers messed up - reflash?
Hi! rootsh package does not modify root password, but openssh does. Cheers, Tumi - Original message - On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Philipp Haselwarter philipp.haselwar...@gmx.de wrote: I chmod 0640'ed /etc/sudoers on my N900 and closed the terminal -.- sudo gainroot/chmod/... fails complaining about the permissions, the gui package manager does so silently. Can't mount the filesystem root offline on another device to chmod 0440 back (?), can't login as root locally, ssh to localhost seems to work but I don't have the slightest idea about the root password. Any way to avoid a reflash? The root password should be the one you created when you installed the rootsh package. If you forgot it, then... I have not tried it, but you might be able to use a rescue initrd like the one described here to gain access to your rootfs: http://wiki.meego.com/ARM/N900/Using_Rescue_Initrd There are also a few things that could have helped, had you installed them ahead of time, like backupmenu, or if you have NITdroid or MeeGo in a dual-boot environment you might be able to use them to edit your file permissions. Good luck! ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
