On 19 October 2011 12:02, alan c <aecl...@candt.waitrose.com> wrote: > 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 > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ >
Before you launch nautilus, try mounting the drive first with from the command line or would Gparted do it??? Steve
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