On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 08:23:43AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > Suddenly I can no longer login to gdm. When I enter my user name the > screen goes blank then returns to the login screen. I created an new > user and when I tried to log in as this user the screen went blank after > I entered the new user's password. I still can login at any of the > terminal screens with either my user name and password or the new user's > name and password. > > At one point there was a message /dev/null permission denied. The > permissions were 666 which seemed like it should be ok to read and write > to /dev/null but I changed them to 777 to be sure. Then I no longer got > the message but the logins failed as above. > > Anyone know what I have messed up? > > Tom > My fault. I was trying to get workbone working again, I was getting a message to change the permissions to cdrom with chmod 666 /dev/cdrom. When I ran this a root and the ll /dev/cdrom the permissions were unchanged. Eventually I read the chmod man page carefully enough to learn that since cdrom was a soft link to hdc the chmod command changed the permissions of hdc, not cdrom.
While working this out I must have inadvertantly changed the permissions to the dev directory. Today, going carefully over all the permissions with a clear understanding of what I was doing I found and corrected the problem. Well, almost a clear understanding - yesterday neither workbone nor setmixer was working. First I got setmixer working then tackled the workbone problem. Now workbone is working but setmixer -V again gives the message, "error opening /dev/mixer." with 755 permissions. I'll work on it. Tom > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]