dejnsen@caen.engin.umich.edu (Nik Anthony Gervae) (04/19/91)
I did a stupid thing....I su'd as root and launched UserManager, and changed the group of the account I was logged in on! Workspace promptly froze up on attempted logout, and now whenever I boot I get a tiny little window in front of the loginwindow, logged in as root. If I type "logout" there, boot proceeds, but then the mouse tracking doesn't work! The right button does pop up a the menu, but the cursor (if it appears at all) doesn't move and no menu items are highlighted. I hope I haven't fried a chip or something.... Also--I just got a CD-ROM drive; I removed it and tried, no luck. Would faulty termination cause a problem like this? Anxiously anticipating any response or help, Nik A Gervae -- / Nik Gervae aka dejnsen@caen.engin.umich.edu | "It'll be finished next week, \ | CS/Linguistics stud. & NeRD at UM (go blow) | I promise!"--me | | | | | **When all else fails, bug someone who | "Just say an iguana chewed | \ knows (not me!). | up your textbook."--Jason Fox /
dejnsen@caen.engin.umich.edu (Nik Anthony Gervae) (04/19/91)
OK, so I ran fsck and I've got my mouse back (and auto-repeat on the keyboard too--that was defunct for some reason). fsck asked me if I wanted to clear all these unknown files (I said no), adjusted some inode counts, and I let it reconnect a whole *mess* of files, all of which are sitting in the root lost+found directory with numbers (their former inode #s) instead of names. I am now faced with the task of putting these files *back* where they belong. Anyone have any suggestions? Some are emacs directories--I know where they go but don't know their proper names or permissions. Sigh. Maybe I'll call the local NeXT rep and see what he can do.... Thanks in advance to all who help, or even attempt to help. Nik -- / Nik Gervae aka dejnsen@caen.engin.umich.edu | "It'll be finished next week, \ | CS/Linguistics stud. & NeRD at UM (go blow) | I promise!"--me | | | | | **When all else fails, bug someone who | "Just say an iguana chewed | \ knows (not me!). | up your textbook."--Jason Fox /