Re: Re: incomplete update(?) trashed my system

[Charles Blair <c-blair@illinois.edu>]

> > Take a look at ls -l /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/
> > The permissions should be
> > -rwsr-xr-- 1 root messagebus [...] dbus-daemon-launch-helper
> > Have they changed, and to what?

   After logging in, becoming superuser, and a little trial-
and-error with chmod, ls -l now gives

-rwSr-xr-- 1 root root 298544 Dec 3 15:03 dbus-daemon-launch-helper

I hope the upper-case S doesn't indicate a further problem.

> Unless you have a typescript of the changes you made

   Is there some log file (or excerpts thereof)
that I should post?

> whether any other files have been "adjusted".

   Would running find in some way, perhaps followed by ls -l
and grep, be useful in identifying other potential disasters?

   Or should I take a flying leap with another run of
apt-get update ?