SUDO goof-up

paul hendrick paul.hendrick at gmail.com
Sat Oct 2 13:20:42 UTC 2004


Hi Lee,

On Sat, 02 Oct 2004 09:16:49 -0400, Lee <clland64 at charter.net> wrote:
> Sorry no joy
> It returned the some window.
> 

Hmmm, weird. I'm not sure why the permissions wouldnt be restored
after a reinstall.
you could try chown $username /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox -R
(of course, put your users name:)
then try opening firefox from a terminal again.

post the output back afterwards.

> > maybe some permissions were changed on the firefox directories? if so,
> > a re-install would fix that. so use synaptic to search for firefox,
> > then mark it for re-installation.
> >
> > i hope this works for you.
> >
> > paul.
> 
> 



-- 
Cheers,
Paul
http://www.student.livjm.ac.uk/cmsphend/gnome




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