Edgy - "Missing" Directories

[Scott]

On Sunday 08 October 2006 01:46 pm, stude.list at googlemail.com
(stude.list at googlemail.com) spake thusly:

> Hi
> 
> On 08/10/06, Scott <geekboy at angrykeyboarder.com> wrote:
>> I'm not sure what's happened (I suspect I've inadvertently changed a
>> setting somewhere  --  but then...maybe not) but when I open Nautilus
>> and move to the top of the directory tree, I only see two
>> directories. Those being "home" and "media".
> So your saying you can't see the directories but they're there?

I see the directories in a terminal as a user or as root (i.e. ls -all
lists directories as you'd expect).  But when I open Nautilus or
Konqueror and navigate to the top of the directory tree ("/") I only
see two directories ("home" and "media").

This also affects file save and open dialogs. Nothing outside of "media"
and "home" (and their subfolders) shows up.  But if I type the path in
(thank god GNOME *finally* figured that's a user friendly feature) I
can get to the directory (although it often causes a hang in KDE).

> 
> It is possible that you've inadvertantly removed the executable bit
> for the directories for your user.
> 
> any chance you could do:
> ls -al /
> and then as root
> sudo ls -al /
> 
> this should give you the groups and permissions.
> Note that the executable bit on directories makes it listable.

Well as I stated previously they appear normally in a terminal as a user
or as root.  That's why I'm baffeled by this.


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        Scott
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