On 19/10/11 09:29, ** wrote: > I admit it I was stupid. I was doing an unattended upgrade of my > laptop to 11.10 and then stupidly turned off the mains power. > Needless to say the upgrade failed about an hour later and I can no > longer boot to the hard disk. > > I can boot with a live cd (it happens to be Mint because it's all I > have immediately available) on a USB stick and of course I am > having trouble with file permissions trying to save my /home > directory. Unfortunately when I try "sudo nautilus" however my hard > disk is not even visible (and I get a permission denied message) > although it is visible without the sudo but without the necessary > permissions.
After other comments here: does gksudo nautilus work? Also - is nautilus still used in Ubuntu 11.10? In a live session - iirc, then in a terminal, just su will raise you to superuser level I think, then , to start (nautilus) just nautilus (??) hth -- alan cocks Ubuntu user -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
