• Ubuntu Upgrade 18.05

    From Steven Wolf@1:267/160 to All on Fri May 17 11:37:07 2019

    I had some permission problems with both Ubuntu server and Lubuntu. Has anyone
    else exprienced the same? Some files I could not access. Some files would not write. The upgrade was on two different machines. Does anyone know of a "fix"? Is this an isolated incident?



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  • From Alan Ianson@1:153/757 to Steven Wolf on Fri May 17 09:05:04 2019
    I had some permission problems with both Ubuntu server and Lubuntu. Has anyone
    else exprienced the same? Some files I could not access. Some files would
    not
    write. The upgrade was on two different machines. Does anyone know of a "fix"?
    Is this an isolated incident?

    I don't know why your having problems. I run slackware myself and have had problems with permissions at times. Maybe a file was created by root and others
    can't read it?

    When I've had problems I chown the directory along with all the files and directories within.

    chown -R username:group /sbbs

    If you run that command as root it'll change the ownership of all the files and
    directories in /sbbs to the user and group you provide.

    I hope that'll help.

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  • From Steven Wolf@1:267/160 to Alan Ianson on Sat May 18 21:32:31 2019
    Re: Ubuntu Upgrade 18.05
    By: Alan Ianson to Steven Wolf on Fri May 17 2019 09:05 am

    Some files would not write. The upgrade was on two different machines.
    Does anyone know of a "fix"? Is this an isolated incident?


    chown -R username:group /sbbs

    I hope that'll help.

    Thanks for that. The problem was on my laptop. I don't have /sbbs on it. The problem was with by browsers. I could not log on to any accounts that required a user name and password. I also couldn't access some files with the file manager. Anyway I just wiped it clean and went back to 16.04. Everything is back to normal again. I didn't need to upgrade but I did anyway. I won't do that again. Thanks for the reply.

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  • From Mark Redden@1:2320/105 to Alan Ianson on Sat May 23 11:12:43 2020
    I had some permission problems with both Ubuntu server and Lubuntu. Has anyone
    else exprienced the same? Some files I could not access. Some files would not
    write. The upgrade was on two different machines. Does anyone know of a "fix"?
    Is this an isolated incident?

    I don't know why your having problems. I run slackware myself and have had problems with permissions at times. Maybe a file was created by root and others
    can't read it?

    When I've had problems I chown the directory along with all the files and directories within.

    chown -R username:group /sbbs

    If you run that command as root it'll change the ownership of all the files and
    directories in /sbbs to the user and group you provide.

    I hope that'll help.

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  • From Mark Redden@1:2320/105 to Steven Wolf on Mon May 25 23:25:13 2020

    I had some permission problems with both Ubuntu server and Lubuntu. Has anyone else exprienced the same? Some files I could not access. Some files would not write. The upgrade was on two different machines. Does anyone
    know
    of a "fix"? Is this an isolated incident?



    HusTler
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    i love lenux
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