I can't get into Linux.

[Shelagh]

Dear RoboticGolem

Thankyou for your response. It was indeed a permissions problem, but 
farther up the line
in the /usr/share directory. Some idiot (me!) changed the permissions. I 
slept on the
problem the first night but it only came to me last night what I'd changed.

So I looked up in my book how to tackle permissions on the command line 
and it worked.

Shelagh

On Sat, 14 Aug 2004 23:39:25 -0700, RoboticGolem <roboticgolem at gmail.com> 
wrote:

> Well, my permissions (and from what I understand) are drwxr-xr-x.
> Which makes sense to me cause on your system, root would be able to
> log in and no one else because you have the 'other read' flag removed.
> Type (as root):
>
> chmod 755 /usr/share/gdm/themes/Bluecurve
>
> then:
>
> chmod 644 /usr/share/gdm/themes/Bluecurve/*
>
> and that should get you going.
>
> (assuming thats the only problem)
>
> -Matt
>
> On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 12:36:49 +1000, Shelagh Manton <oneida at tpg.com.au> 
> wrote:
>> Sorry, my last post didn't include that I'm still using Fedora core1.
>>
>>
>>
>> I'm back on Windows (bother!) again. I've done something and I can't log
>> into the Gnome desktop.
>> The log in procedure goes well until I get to the log in page. Then I 
>> get a
>> message saying that it can't open
>> /usr/share/gdm/themes/Bluecurve/Bluecurve.xml.
>> I opened one of the other terminals (ctrl-alt-f1) and looked for the 
>> file.
>> It is still there. But cd /usr/share/gdm/themes/Bluecurve complains that
>> Bluecurve is not a directory. Using vi on it tells me that Bluecurve is 
>> a
>> directory and that it includes Bluecurve.xml. I did open Bluecurve.xml 
>> with
>> vi and while I could not tell if anything was wrong with it, it had 
>> text in
>> it which seemed OK. Eg not scrambled text. I looked at the file 
>> permissions
>> and nothing obviously stupid there eg root owns it and drwxr-x--x (this 
>> is
>> approximate as I forgot to write it down). Where should I go from here?
>>
>> Shelagh
>>
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