[Madlug] Ubuntu 8.10 issues

[Chris Dolan]

On Mar 22, 2009, at 12:02 AM, Chris Niesen wrote:

> I made the mistake a few months ago of issuing the command:  "sudo  
> chown -R root:root /" on my ubuntu box.  I recovered most of my  
> major mistake, yet I have a few lingering issues I was hoping  
> someone could help me out with:
>
> I cannot print to my usb Brother CDP-7020 multifunction printer, yet  
> I can scan fine with xsane.
> I am not sure if it is related, but for some reason my sound stopped  
> working a week or two ago.
> My wife's user cannot unlock the screen after the screen locks.  I  
> have tried changing her password, chowning her home folder, and yet  
> nothing works.  She can successfully login from the initial login  
> screen, but after the screen is locked, she is out of luck and has  
> to click switch user, then login once again
> Any help is greatly appreciated!

The .deb packages all have default permissions recorded in them --  
surely there must be a way to correct permissions via dpkg?  But a  
quick search through dpkg man pages didn't reveal anything to me.  A  
google search turned up a page[1] suggesting it was infeasible to fix,  
but I have a hard time believing that.  This sounds like a fairly  
straightforward open source project for someone with scripting skills.

  [1] https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/debian-26/repair-permissions-installed-.deb-package-355052/?s=ab947409f367d1a645686a8dc5167b46

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