Don't touch my clipboard

Re:Don't touch my clipboard by big_chungus on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @04:34PM (#22360639)

It's a pain-and-a-half. I'm not sure any system ever recovers fully, but you basically run chmod -R's on most of the important directories and then fix the many services that will surely fail once you can get a shell.

More specifically, I used a bunch of these links until I could get a shell, then manually-fixed the rest.

https://askubuntu.com/questions/308939/how-to-reset-default-...

https://askubuntu.com/questions/508359/restore-default-syste...

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Re:Don't touch my clipboard by nemosaltat on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @12:33AM (#22363271)

Can confirm. I kept getting permission errors on something I was testing, and in desperation ran `chmod -R 777` thinking I was in my project dir. I was actually at root. After a bunch attempts to recover, I ended up saving the data I cared about and doing a fresh install. 0/10 would not recommend.

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