Bob broke ubuntu

[David A. Bandel]

On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 3:08 PM, Boob Hemus <ol.bob at charter.net> wrote:

[snip]

> ubuntu at ubuntu:/media/disk$ ls -al
> total 148
> drwxr-xr-x  21 root root  4096 2008-09-04 14:15 .
> drwxr-xr-x   4 root root   120 2008-10-07 19:21 ..
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 2008-10-06 19:07 bin
> drwxr-xr-x   3 root root  4096 2008-10-06 19:07 boot
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root    11 2007-12-30 12:39 cdrom -> media/cdrom
> drwxr-xr-x   4 root root 12288 2008-10-06 19:07 dev
> drwxr-xr-x 162 root root 12288 2008-10-07 18:28 etc

what's in this directory?  look for passwd and passwd- (a bak file)

> drwxr-xr-x   5 root root  4096 2006-04-23 01:51 home
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 2007-10-15 23:17 initrd
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root    33 2008-09-04 14:15 initrd.img ->
> boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-19-generic
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root    33 2008-06-27 07:52 initrd.img.old ->
> boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-15-generic
> drwxr-xr-x  20 root root 12288 2008-10-06 19:07 lib
> drwx------   2 root root 16384 2007-12-30 12:38 lost+found
> drwxr-xr-x   6 root root  4096 2006-04-23 01:51 media
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 2006-04-23 01:51 mnt
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 2006-04-23 01:51 opt
> dr-xr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 2006-04-23 01:51 proc
> drwx------  22 root root  4096 2008-10-06 19:07 root
> drwxr-xr-x   3 root root  4096 2008-10-06 19:07 sbin
> drwxr-xr-x   4 root root  4096 2006-04-23 01:51 srv
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 2006-04-23 01:51 sys
> drwxrwxrwt   5 root root 36864 2008-10-07 18:28 tmp
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root    10 2007-12-31 00:33 ttyACM0 -> /dev/modem
> drwxr-xr-x  14 root root  4096 2006-04-23 01:51 usr
> drwxr-xr-x  17 root root  4096 2008-10-06 19:06 var
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root    30 2008-09-04 14:15 vmlinuz ->
> boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-19-generic
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root    30 2008-06-27 07:52 vmlinuz.old ->
> boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-15-generic
> ubuntu at ubuntu:/media/disk$
>

Sounds to me like you have a different problem.

Take some meds, slow down your breathing, take normal breaths.  Then
slowly, tell us step by step what is happening.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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