From: Fred Smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> > I rebooted a while ago (and in between the down and up, I installed Fedora > 20 Beta on a USB hard drive, making sure it wouldn't mess with my > Centos system). The install went fine, but afterwards, when I reboot Centos, it > comes up with a black screen and a clock as the mouse cursor (small clock). > > chmod a+rw /dev/null > chmod a+rw /dev/urandom > chmod a+rw /dev/zero > chmod a+rw /dev/full > chmod a+rw /dev/random > > Can anyone suggest an accurate way to have the system fix all the permissions > in /dev? some arcane options on rpm, perhaps? Nothing at all in the logs...? Global check: rpm -qVa Maybe check udev confs...? JD