What are you doing inside working on your computer on a gorgous day such
as this? (I have an excuse - I'm a nerd). ;-)
The first thing that comes to my mind is that your /etc directory
doesn't have 755 permissions.
--Bruce
farinella wrote:
>
> I'm sorry if I've already sent a similar message, but I haven't seen it so
> I can only assume it wasn't sent.
>
> My RedHat 6.2 machine suddenly does not recognize any of it's users. If I
> log in as user I get '/etc/profile permission denied'. It accepts the
> login. Whoami results in 'cannot find username for UID XXX'. Root login
> seems to be ok.
>
> My font server won't start. It croaks with 'xfs error: fatal: couldn't
> read config file.'
> I've tried to start it manually, same result. I've copied a known good
> config file from another install, same result.
>
> I booted to my other install (separate hard drive) and that seems ok except
> when I type su and give it the password, it takes a long time to accept
> it. Same thing when I exit su.
>
> The machine worked normally until this morning. I installed portsentry
> which went smoothly at which time the thing went batty.
>
> Yesterday while reading my mail in Pine, I got a flash of a message about
> 'unprotected memory' or something like that, it went away before I could
> really focus on it. I then found a directory in my /home/user called
> '.gnupg' which to the best of my knowledge I did not put there. I removed
> it.
>
> Does this make sense to anyone?
>
> --charlie
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