-----Original Message----- From: Les Mikesell [mailto:lesmikesell@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2013 5:25 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] How should I reinstall CentOS?
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 3:47 PM, Michael Hennebry hennebry@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu wrote:
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I'm not willing to put in another week of effort out of a probably vain hope of discovery.
You might try running 'rpm -Va' to see if there are any surprises in the list of differences between the current state and what was installed.
-- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com
Note on the rpm -Va... I had an issue recently where a package (openoffice) would not work correctly and: yum reinstall openoffice* #did not help rpm -Va #did not find ANY issues (which surprised me when I did figure out what was wrong)
however doing a (I did a more restricted, to openoffice files, version of) find /usr/ -not -perm -o+r -exec ls -lhd {} + find /usr/ -type d -not -perm -g+x -exec ls -lhd {} + find /usr/ -type d -not -perm -o+x -exec ls -lhd {} + found files that were not even set to write for ROOT (and in general had NO permission for anyone else)! The idea is basically that almost all files in /usr/ should be READABLE by any user and almost all directories should be READABLE & EXECUTABLE by all so that they can list and read the files in them.
I don't know if the commands at http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/reset-rhel-centos-fedora-package-file-perm ission.html would have fixed the issue, because I brute forced the perms to root writeable and then reinstalled the packages again.
BTW, I still feel a little confused on what the OP's original problem was and why they are headed in the direction of a 'reinstall the system'. Seems a bit overkill for most problems.
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