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andy64
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 Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 8:42 pm Post subject: chmod/chown does not work correctly ??? losetup/reiserfs |
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Right now I'm unable to start the X-Server; the file .Xauthority can't be deleted. The system hangs completely and has to be rebooted!
I have an aes encrypted file, that I use as home directory:
losetup -e aes-256 /dev/loop0 /data/crypt/cfile
mount /dev/loop0 /home (the filesystem is reiserfs)
After doing this, the home directory for the user andy is there. Now there is a file .Xauthority with the ownership root:root and permissions 000.
Despite being root, it's impossible to assign something to this file via chmod or chown; I get always the error message:
chmod: cannot access `.Xauthority´: Permission denied
How can I get rid of this file? I also think that this is a bad bug that the system gets completely crashed. Only a hard reset helps!
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R!tman
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| Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 9:00 pm Post subject: |
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I am using Reiser4, not ReiserFS. I do not remember if there is a 'chattr' implementation with ReiserFS (there is none with Reiser4, but ext2/3 have it).
You could try
and then delete the file. But only if the filesystem supports it.
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I mean.
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andy64
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| Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 10:06 pm Post subject: |
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Nope, does not work!
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# chattr -a .Xauthority
chattr: Permision denied while trying to stat .Xauthority
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R!tman
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| Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 10:11 pm Post subject: |
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| Maybe your system is borked. Try booting with a livecd and delete the file then. |
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