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I think I changed the ownership and the rights of the /usr/ folder... And now I can't run some applications... because they tell me that I don't have rights... and the pop-up that asks me some kind of password doesn't appear.
I am using fedora 10.
Any ideas how can I fix this ?
Press the up arrow key in the command prompt. It should show you what commands you ran and hopefully you can see what was typed that included "chown -R"
/usr directory owned by root user and as i have seen your post that you have changed ownership of this directory so revert back the ownership of /usr directory( eg. chown -R root:root path)
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No chance I've written too much things in the terminal since then.
try with history, it will result in things that you have done in the terminal
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