help... think i ruined my kubuntu install :X

[Guest]

hey guys,

i hope you can help me with this... i'm pretty new to linux (just installed it 2 days ago) and still trying to figure everything out...

now... what happend is, that i tried to change permission in order to install a plugin for firefox and somehow i did something wrong...

the situations is, that i can't boot my kubuntu installation, the console says, i dont have permission to write certain files in '/' (system/root) directory... seems like i denied myself the permission or gave it to a none-existing group or so ...

maybe you guys know how to change the permissions again (in console) or have another clue...

i'm thankful for every hint

p.s. pls excuse certain mistakes in gramma and writing, i'm foreign

[flebber]

Re: help... think i ruined my kubuntu install :X

not knowing what commands you did before will make it confusing.

What you can do this is find out what files have what permissions.

ls -al /

or

ls -al /otherfoldername

once you know what our permissions are you can use chown to set them. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chown"]Chown commands on Wikipedia[/url]

example

sudo chown -R root:root /name_of_file_or_folder

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo

[Guest]

Re: help... think i ruined my kubuntu install :X

hey, thanks for your answer! i guess i'm gonna spend the next hours fixing this now .

btw. i uses the permission option inside X for setting permissions