[debbugs-tracker] bug#16104: closed (Desktop Linux Mint 15 Olivia is broken due to chmod permission changes)

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chmod permission changes
has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #16104,
regarding Desktop Linux Mint 15 Olivia is broken due to chmod permission changes
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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Desktop Linux Mint 15 Olivia is broken due to chmod permission changes Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 16:47:05 -0500 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.1.1

I found this web site - http://linuxg.net/how-to-change-file-and-folder-permissions-with-chmod-part-1/ -  to learn a terminal command to change permission to a usr/share/ folder so I could install a pidgin theme folder in pidgin directory but, obviously, without knowing what I was doing, Mint 15 got broken with that.

I entered the following command:
sudo chmod -R u-x,g-x,o-rwx usr/share/

And now booting Mint will give me gibberish dialog windows in an empty black background.

Either Nemo or Cinnamon is not working correctly and I would like to restore it back to its original setup.

I'm guessing the way to fix this is enter a command restoring all permissions to default in "drop to root shell prompt" in recovery mode.

Thankfully, I have also Ubuntu 13 installed in the same desktop PC so I could write this message, because Mint 15 is totally unusable.

How do I fix this or where do I ask for help?

Thanks for reading and hope to hear from you soon.

Denise.

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> Wed, 11 Dec 2013 00:42:06 +0100
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> On 12/10/2013 10:47 PM, Denise wrote:
> > sudo chmod -R u-x,g-x,o-rwx usr/share/
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> outch.
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> Thanks for the bug report, however, as you might already know,
> this is not a bug in coreutils' chmod but rather an issue in
> the way you used it.  Therefore, I'm marking this bug as done.
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> Okay, back to your case. To get your system back to work, you
> should understand what the above command did. Read about it.
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> To restore the permissions, your best bet would be a backup.
> With this, you could go there and run a command line like the
> following to change the permission back to what they have been
> in that backup.
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>   $ cd /backup/usr/share
>   $ find . -exec chmod -v --reference="{}" "/usr/share/{}" \;
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> But again, please first read the documentation of the involved
> programs to understand what happened and what you are doing,
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>   $ info coreutils 'chmod invocation'
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> Have a nice day,
> Berny
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