Answer by ramiro for What could have caused all non-root accounts to lose...
just do this: sudo chmod 777 /tmp/
View ArticleAnswer by lorenzog for What could have caused all non-root accounts to lose...
Try chmod +t /tmp and see if that fixes it.
View ArticleAnswer by Karst Lok for What could have caused all non-root accounts to lose...
Could be your Xen host having problems with a disk or disk-access. Running an install job can only be done as root, so you had to su or sudo for it. When you tried to logon with another account, you...
View ArticleAnswer by Maxfer for What could have caused all non-root accounts to lose...
Is it posible you have two user with the same UID? Look /etc/passwd
View ArticleAnswer by Rob Olmos for What could have caused all non-root accounts to lose...
Three ideas: Slicehost's underlying system suffered an issue like a kernel forced remount to read-only Your slice or Slicehost's system ran out of disk space A messed up compilation script (never run...
View ArticleAnswer by Zoredache for What could have caused all non-root accounts to lose...
One pretty common thing that could have happened is that you ran chmod or chown with the wrong parameters. A quick search of serverfault for recover chmod returns lots of questions describing similar...
View ArticleWhat could have caused all non-root accounts to lose basic file and directory...
Please Note: The problem I describe below seems to have "gone away" on its own. But that's not very comforting, so I'm hoping for a solution, or at least an explanation, should it recur. I was just...
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