omg now u tell me
no worries. i finally ended up reinstalling. most of the time i put into configuring my video card i saved anyway. i finally figured out the syntax for chmod and finished screwing it up. out of the gui. did cd to my home folder, and had not read the wild card warning (who knows whether i would have heeded anyway) and tried to make myself the owner of EVERYTHING. when chmod did not recursively change the directories i wanted removed, i thought 'it ignores directories' and thought, silly me, that the symbol for root would be the symbol for 'a' directory. stopped it when i saw it changing owner of /usr.... to me, but the damage was done. afterwards the system booted, but would not accept password in order to change the permissions back. who knows how complex the structure of the permissions are on a single user system. i didn't lose any data. hopefully i learned my lesson, but i'm pretty slow. C'est La Vie
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