Reset permissions to default?

Nixie · 2009-04-24 03:50:56

My file and directory permissions were messed up while backing up my Root partition (my Home partition is still perfectly fine). So now su & sudo do not work for my normal user account, VirtualBox will not load and I cannot shutdown/restart my laptop from my user account. All of which is a pain.

Is it possible to somehow restore the permissions back to the normal Arch defaults using a simple command?

I really don't want to re-install from scratch, I'd rather login as root and try repairing this mess

fukawi2 · 2009-04-24 04:50:59

Doh!

Does chmod still work? How about pacman? Something like this might work:

for PKG in `pacman -Qe | awk '{ print $1 }'` ; do
   pacman -Sy $PKG
done

Nixie · 2009-04-24 09:19:29

Thanks for that fukawi... & Doh! indeed. I'd backed up and restored safely before, but this time made the mistake of backing up to a ntfs drive. That's how my permissions were lost

I tried what you posted but would have had to sit there saying yes to each and every package. It gave me somewhere to start from tho. So I searched the forums & found this:-

for i in `pacman -Q | cut -f1 -d " "` ; do pacman -S --noconfirm "$i" ; done

It seems to have done the trick. I still needed to reinstall a few things from the AUR but at least I've got su and sudo back (yay!)

Last edited by Nixie (2009-04-24 09:20:04)

fukawi2 · 2009-04-24 09:22:05

That's what I meant... I just missed the --noconfirm part

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#1 2009-04-24 03:50:56

Reset permissions to default?

#2 2009-04-24 04:50:59

Re: Reset permissions to default?

#3 2009-04-24 09:19:29

Re: Reset permissions to default?

#4 2009-04-24 09:22:05

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