So I’ve messed up by not formatting my partitions on installation and now things are buggy, dbus returns permission denied on starting is one of the prominent bugs at the moment

  • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
    131·
    9 months ago

    I would just start over before you get any more attached to it.

    • notTheCat@lemmy.mlOP
      21·
      9 months ago

      Why? I chowned and chmod the mount points only (not recursively) and now the system is functioning correctly

        • notTheCat@lemmy.mlOP
          1·
          9 months ago

          I can’t see a reason for it to fail since the root user was functioning just fine, shit got buggy as soon as other users tried to read from the fs

          • BCsven@lemmy.ca
            1·
            9 months ago

            Not sure about what permission changes you did, but my system has various permissions depending on the files or folders, so a general recursive change may give you a functioning system, but with broken security

  • SaThaRiel@lemmy.world
    4·
    9 months ago

    Just do the installation again…fixing the permissions maybe easy or extremely hard, depending on how far the problems go. And I don’t think you will learn much besides of how the chown command works.

    • ֆᎮ⊰◜◟⋎◞◝⊱ֆᎮ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      4·
      9 months ago

      I think the point a lot of people are making is that because it’s a fresh install it might have been quicker and faster to just reinstall versus whatever kind of checking and troubleshooting you’d have to do with the permissions.

    • notTheCat@lemmy.mlOP
      11·
      9 months ago

      It was only the root of the partitions that I messed up, and I guess the bugs were caused because the Mint live boot only gave the user read permissions (no group or others can read) so I believe shit is fine, plus it’s a fresh installation so there’s that too

  • Player2@lemm.ee
    3·
    9 months ago

    Whenever I break something and can’t figure it out, I just make sure anything important is backed up and do a clean reinstall. Someone else might have a better answer though

    • notTheCat@lemmy.mlOP
      51·
      9 months ago

      Seriously nobody gave me an answer, I looked it up from my 2nd machine running Arch and shit is working now

  • Overspark@feddit.nl
    31·
    9 months ago

    Good on you for getting it fixed. One of the reasons Linux is a great OS in my opinion is that everything is in the file system and not in some arcane hidden thing. So every problem is solvable without a reinstall if you’re motivated enough to figure it out.