chowned /usr to myself, how to recover?

Question

I accidently ran chown myname /usr -R and now the login screen won't show up! I have tried various things in the root terminal, but nothing works. What can I do?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 07 '14 at 07:21

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open tty1 ctrl+alt+f1

Login with your username and password

Now

sudo chown root /usr

Return back to your GUI tty ctrl+alt+f7

and try to login

answered Mar 07 '14 at 07:21

Maythux

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Nothing happened, I think it should be -R, I tried with it, no luck. – gskartwii Mar 07 '14 at 07:28
Then you probably did something else. what is output of ls -l /usr – Maythux Mar 07 '14 at 07:29

chowned /usr to myself, how to recover?

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