Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 13:57:49 -0500 (EST) From: Tim Kellers <timothyk@serv1.wallnet.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: I broke ttyv0 Message-ID: <20020210134339.V57558-100000@serv1.wallnet.com>
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Everything was working just fine last night, I installed dgen (from inside of KDE 2.2.2_x, Konsole), ssh'd to my box at work and worked on that machine until the wee hours of this morning. All was well. This morning I booted, ran startx, built and installed xmame and kmamerun. This being a dual-boot Dell C600 laptop, (and my mame roms were on the Windows partition), I mount_msdos /dev/ad0s3 /mnt, and using Konqueror, copied the roms from that FS to the appropriate location for xmame. I exited KDE (and X) su'd, and did an adduser for my son who wanted to play the games. I exited and he logged on, but he was dropped to the / directory and got a "permission denied" when trying to cd to /usr/home. I exitedand logged on as myself and the same thing happened, no access to my home directory (as root, I could go anywhere), in fact my shell is tcsh, but I was dropped to a csh prompt with the # after it, just like I was root --(but I didn't have root access unless I su'd). I compared all the file/folder permissions with my working desktop box (FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE on both) and I could see no differences at all. Taking the shotgun approach, I cvsupped the latest sources (about 3 days worth, I buildworld fairly often). Just for the heck of it, I pressed alt-f2 and tried a login... It works just as advertised, no permission problems, no wrong shell prompt, placed in the current directory... everything. To say I'm baffled is an understatement, I'd appreciate any ideas on how to unbaffle me before I buildworld and kernel (I feel in my bones that rebuilding everything isn't going to fix this, anyway). TIA Tim CPE/NJIT To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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