Re: [PLUG] really dumb ubuntu question

[jim fisher <jedijf@myfisher.org>]

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On 7/12/10, Chris Nehren <c.nehren/plug@shadowcat.co.uk> wrote:
> On Jul 12, 2010, at 6:56 PM, Conor Schaefer wrote:
>
>> Ubuntu is pretty user-friendly, yes, but if you broke wireless in a
>> terminal, you'll probably have to fix it in a terminal.
>>
>> Have you tried a simple "ls -l /usr/lib"? Tell her to look through that
>> output for signs of a broken symlink, which should stand out in red. You
>> could also use find with a pipe to grep to return only symlinks.
>
> Er. If whoever's operating the machine is smart enough to look through
> /usr/lib for broken links (and then fix them), surely they're smart enough
> to have fixed it and circumvented the parental policy in the first place?
>
> I wholeheartedly echo the "don't mess with the filesystem" advice. There's a
> dozen different, better, less brittle ways of doing what you want, even
> PolicyKit (/me shudders).
>
>
>> In the future, try editing the /etc/group file to remove her account from
>> editing network connections.
>>
>> On Jul 12, 2010 6:49 PM, "Stephanie Alarcon" <steph.alarcon@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Well fancy that, 2 messages my first day on the list. Timing couldn't
>> > be better. Sorry for the intrusion, hope this is a simple one...
>> >
>> > A while ago I put Ubuntu on a an old Dell for my niece. Her parents
>> > have a no-internet-in-your-room rule, so they asked me to disable
>> > wireless. Well, she's at a writing camp outside of DC and needs the
>> > wireless back. I think all I did was break a symlink between two .so's
>> > in /usr/lib, but without the machine in front of me, I can't remember
>> > exactly what to tell her to do, or what hardware she has.
>> >
>> > But this is Ubuntu, so there's got to be an easy way to fix it in the
>> > gui, right? Can she somehow delete the device, re-add it, and do a
>> > system update to get back to a healthy state?
>
> This isn't Windows. Unless the .so you broke was for a device driver
> (dynamic libs in userspace for a device driver? I don't think so),
> "reinstalling" the device won't fix the problem. Assuming that you did,
> indeed, break a .so link, you've got to fix the link or, failing that, find
> which package it was in and reinstall the package (hoping it doesn't blow up
> because you've changed the state of reality out from under it).
>
> --
> Thanks and best regards,
> Chris Nehren
>
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