[SOLVED] Session only lasted less than 10 seconds?

rweaver · 12-18-2009, 04:21 PM

Code:

ls -l / > /tmp/file.1
cat /etc/fstab >> /tmp/file.1
mount >> /tmp/file.1
df -h >> /tmp/file.1
ls -l /HOME >> /tmp/file.1
grep username /etc/passwd >> /tmp/file.1

Then copy file.1 over via scp/winscp/whatever.

Vinter · 12-20-2009, 05:16 AM

Or just use links / lynx to browse the web. Takes a little getting used to.

DavidMcCann · 12-20-2009, 12:33 PM

Your error message complained that something had the wrong permissions, so I suggest the following. At the log-in prompt, press Ctrl-Alt-F2 to log in as root in a console. Then type the command
chmod -R 700 /home
Then switch back to the GUI with Ctrl-AltF1 or Ctrl-Alt-F7 (I don't know which Debian uses) and see if you can log in.

catkin · 12-20-2009, 12:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DavidMcCann

chmod -R 700 /home

Please don't -- there are almost certainly many files under /home that should not have permissions 700.

AndeAnderson · 12-21-2009, 09:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vinter

Or just use links / lynx to browse the web. Takes a little getting used to.

I have loaded Lynx and went to the LQ website. Unfortunately, when trying to read the forums my eyes are bombarded with a whole bunch of code text. Things like

Quote:

href="http:/feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/va2fKLhrbryH276jmVQFa8v-Kh8/0/da"

over-and-over, filling the screen.

This make it almost impossible to find the Threads.

Thanks anyway

Vinter · 12-22-2009, 06:53 PM

This post is being made from an up-to-date links, which has proven to me to be somewhat more compatible than lynx.

AndeAnderson · 12-23-2009, 09:03 AM

First, I Thank all of your for your assistance.

Though, most of what you recommended seemed to be basic and simple to you, I was completely lost on how to accomplish most of the recommendations.

The recommendation to 'Post' results was made a few times. I could never seem to get the idea across that I did not understand how this was to be accomplished without the benefit of a GUI.

The suggestion to 'Put it back' without any guidance on how to do that was completely useless.

I will be closing this thread because it has already taken me many hours of frustration to try and correct what I assumed was a corrupted user profile. That did not prove to be the case. And, since this is a test bed for my journey into the world of Linux I did not have anything of importance on it. So, I just re-installed Debian from scratch.

I pray I won't make the same mistakes this time around. Again, thanks for the help.

rweaver · 12-23-2009, 09:03 AM

Try elinks rather than lynx.

titetanium · 12-27-2009, 10:09 AM

OP, excuse me for being so late to this thread, but in the future should you run into this problem again, try this:
1) Login as root in the console
2) cd /home
3) As root type the following:

Code:

chown -R username:username username

where username is the folder as well as its own name.
4) Type

Code:

init 3

and enter
5) Type

Code:

init 5

and enter

You should be able to login as that user at this point. If that works for that user, then you need to do the same for all of the other users other than root. Just do not log in as root in the GUI! Bad things happen, and the cleanup isn't as pretty.....