[QUOTE=Boris-B;28196568]The more I think about the more it looks like a permission issue. I can't be that all these binaries are gone bad, because they work. Also, my upgrade didn't touch all those files.
I can't be the new kernel because the problem appeared before I rebooted.
Everything that might be a possible cause for it doesn't make sense because it either doesn't affect all the files that break, or I need to reboot or do something special for it to work.
I think that some package might have accidentally changed a permission on something like / or even just something in the $PATH so that executables become invisible.
[b]Is there some sort of a list of what files should have what permissions and what directories should have what permissions.[b][/QUOTE]
Pretty sure that has to do with the filesystem and could in theory be brought up in a list, not sure of any kind of tool though that can do the job.
What kernel version has that 200-line performance patch thingie in it?
Edit:
Nevermind, a couple of threads down below
[URL]http://www.facepunch.com/threads/1051348-Linux-Kernel-2.6.38-RC1-released-with-the-quot-200-line-speed-patch-quot-built-in[/URL]!
I took the debs meant for Ubuntu, had to install a dependancy that wasn't on repos so I stole that too from Ubuntu too.
Debian testing:
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/GjA9P.png[/IMG]
No kernel updating now. Unless that kernel is proven to cause you to explode.
[QUOTE=jjsullivan;28200542]Pretty sure that has to do with the filesystem and could in theory be brought up in a list, not sure of any kind of tool though that can do the job.[/QUOTE]
I mean there has to be some sort of standard for permissions in the linux filesystem.
Now that I think about it. I could just compare with permissions on my arch install on my desktop.
[editline]21st February 2011[/editline]
I just checked the permissions and everything is fine. This is fucking odd. I'm trying to reinstall the base package, I'll see what happens...
It's mostly fixed now. I can finally boot it properly into runlevel 5.
The problem was that somehow my root partition got screwed up and I had to run e2fsck on it to fix it. This caused a shit ton of files to go missing. I've had to reinstall all the packages of the missing files.
After I did that it still didn't work. I reinstalled the base package group and now I can boot.
There are still a few problems here and there. Pacman will sometimes give me a "error: command failed to execute properly" without even trying to be specific.
in the arch setup im using nano to edit my rc.conf and it says ^X exit but i have no idea what that means or how i exit can someone help. man i feel like a noob with arch
[QUOTE=Takkun10;28215385]in the arch setup im using nano to edit my rc.conf and it says ^X exit but i have no idea what that means or how i exit can someone help. man i feel like a noob with arch[/QUOTE]
That means ctrl+x.
EDIT: :ninja:
[QUOTE=Takkun10;28215385]in the arch setup im using nano to edit my rc.conf and it says ^X exit but i have no idea what that means or how i exit can someone help. man i feel like a noob with arch[/QUOTE]
^(anything) means control+(anything). So control+X to close, control+V to pagedown, etc.
[editline]22nd February 2011[/editline]
Damn ninjas. :saddowns:
My wired network doesn't work on Fedora 14. I googled the problem and it says that doing this:
rmmod forcedeth
modprobe forcedeth msi=0 msix=0
/etc/init.d/network restart
should fix it. It doesn't.
It's an nVidia MCP55 by the way.
[QUOTE=IpHa;28215453]That means ctrl+x.
EDIT: :ninja:[/QUOTE]
thanks mate
Is there any other way i can re-install linux mint? My CD isn't working, and i really wanted to do it earlier.
I just installed Ubuntu into a VM for a class. Setup my own theme and wallpaper and such
Now what?
Dw, if this is only me then tell me. If you are re-installing Linux Mint 10, i wouldn't it will not click forward after you type your Name/Username and Password in. It could just be me, my cd's or Linux Mint 10 32x DVD, hmm maybe i was using the Live DVD instead of Live CD.
[editline]23rd February 2011[/editline]
After i type my Wireless password, my mouse doesn't work. What do i do?
I'm trying to install dwm on arch with the help of the article on the arch wiki, but the copy command I have to make says that the source file doesn't exist. Am I doing something wrong?
[QUOTE=sim642;28233859]I'm trying to install dwm on arch with the help of the article on the arch wiki, but the copy command I have to make says that the source file doesn't exist. Am I doing something wrong?[/QUOTE]
Probably trying to copy a file that doesn't exist.
What is the command you're using?
Well I'm executing the command "cp -r /var/abs/community/dwm ~/dwm" from [url]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dwm[/url].
[QUOTE=sim642;28235003]Well I'm executing the command "cp -r /var/abs/community/dwm ~/dwm" from [url]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dwm[/url].[/QUOTE]
Are you sure you're not supposed to copy to ~/.dwm? And does that directory exist?
There isn't dwm folder in /var/abs/community but there sure are many others. Also executing "abs community/dwm" to download the required stuff for dwm isn't working either: it tells that it can't delete non-empty folder called community.
[QUOTE=sim642;28235003]Well I'm executing the command "cp -r /var/abs/community/dwm ~/dwm" from [url]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dwm[/url].[/QUOTE]
You probably forgot to do an abs update, run the "abs" as root command a couple of times for closure and then copy and compile.
Or you just completely skipped installing abs, in that case as root run the command "pacman -S abs"
Anyone know how Debian reacts to Broadcom wireless chipsets?
Does it all work automatically or do I have to spend 5 weeks figuring why the fuck something's not working?
[QUOTE=nikomo;28239542]Anyone know how Debian reacts to Broadcom wireless chipsets?
Does it all work automatically or do I have to spend 5 weeks figuring why the fuck something's not working?[/QUOTE]
Probably will find out this week. (don't know if it has it, but I bet it does)
[QUOTE=InsanePyro;28232127]I just installed Ubuntu into a VM for a class. Setup my own theme and wallpaper and such
Now what?[/QUOTE]
Do something you normally do (web site making browsing etc)
Or try to setup a simple web server with ftp and try to make it secure.
FTP.
Secure.
Not sure if serious.
Not allowing external IPs, or only allowing predefined ones, none default port.
Anyway, are there any decent screen recorders for Linux?
No matter what you do, FTP still sends user and pass as cleartext over the network, so you can either MITM-attack it or sniff it.
With IP blocking and non-default port:
Attacker joins same network as you, sniffs user and pass for FTP from an active session, scans for vulnerable software (probably with metasploit), exploits your machine (with metasploit), process migration to get out of the exploited service or program and then he can just pivot through your machine to access FTP through that.
In a home environment, just staying updated and using WPA2 on your wireless will basically block everything of this though, unless someone really, really wants to get at you.
I think I used something called recordMydesktop ages ago.
You pretty much skipped the important part (getting in) and started rambling on, with some fancy stuff you could do.
If you have only that machine and a decent firewall with only a ftp port open in a locked room. What would you do then?
Define 'that machine'.
The point is nobody gives a shit about you in a home environment, and mostly in a corporate or such environment, it's way too fucking easy to access the network.
Looking at it from a pen tester's POV. Just use SFTP.
Also, gparted is a piece of shit that refuses to boot on my laptop.
The real point is that it still didn't show how insecure FTP is, everything around it yes.
The sniffing is a maybe, but I sure as hell would have punched some one in the dick by the time they plugged in somewhere (even that could count as around as normal security officers should spot that).
Even brute forcing the password could be a valid answer to showing why FTP is insecure.
"The door was insecure because I climbed through a window."
But I will probably stop here.
Oh you have got to fucking with me, my laptop's screen went black in the middle of installing Debian.
Maybe I should have gone with stable instead of testing.
And now it returned back on by magic. Wasn't screen going into powersave, was unresponsive to my mouse and keyboard for a while.
[QUOTE=nikomo;28239542]Anyone know how Debian reacts to Broadcom wireless chipsets?
Does it all work automatically or do I have to spend 5 weeks figuring why the fuck something's not working?[/QUOTE]
All broadcom drivers and firmware are now open-source so it's not as hacky as it used to be.
Plus most wireless chipsets were figured out before then so it's all good.
Riiight, I think most people here know where the MBR resides and what it does.
I sort of forgot that when partitioning and shit fucked up, but I can't make any fucking sense out of the partitioner in Debian so I think I just wrote GRUB on top of the loader for Windows 7. This shit sucks.
I'll have to see how this turns out.
It's the first 512 bytes on the hard drive.
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