On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 02:50:14AM -0700, John Doe wrote: > 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...? Nothing I can see in the logs looks particularly damning. > Global check: rpm -qVa running that right now, will post again if anything interesting turns up. > Maybe check udev confs...? I was thinking of that, but the amount I know aobut udev wouldn't cover the head of a pin. Open to suggestions, though. -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ----------------------------- The Lord is like a strong tower. Those who do what is right can run to him for safety. --------------------------- Proverbs 18:10 (niv) -----------------------------