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/bin
/lost+found
/home/test - the user I was switching to (already logged in)
/root - the user I was switching from
/var/gdm
/etc/audisp
/etc/audit
/boot is empty
/sys is empty
/srv is empty
/media is empty (but it is not)
That was from just a quick scan
~Callum
Have you tried booting from a live disk, executing sudo bash in a terminal window to get a root shell, and running ls -ld /bin (and other folders), to check the permissions on the folder itself (rather than the files inside it?
If the permissions on /bin are something like:
Code:
drwxr-x--- 2 root root 4096 Apr 17 2009 /bin
... then no user other than root (and members of group root) will be able to see the files in there, or traverse the directory), whatever the permissions on the files it contains.
If this is the case, run:
Code:
chmod o+rx /bin # then repeat for the other directories
... to restore read and traverse access for "other". These permsissions should be right for /bin - other directories might be different, but on the distro I'm currently using (Centos 5.3), the permissions on the directories in / look like this:
and now it won't turn on. When I try to turn it on it displays the Fedora loading thing and loads. When it get to the bit where the mouse displays on screen it goes to a black screen and then back to the mouse, and back to black etc.
so it boots, no?
did you try to use
CTRL_ALT_F1 to get a command prompt ?
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