[OpenIndiana-discuss] Recover from user_attr corruption

Jamon Camisso jamonation at gmail.com
Wed May 4 00:01:41 UTC 2011


On 5/3/2011 7:21 PM, Gary Gendel wrote:
>  Hi,
> 
> I installed a package that overwrote my privileges in user_attr.  Now I
> can't pfexec or do anythiing requiring raised privileges (software
> manager, etc.).  The laptop is running the dev_il repository.  How the
> heck to I recover from this?  The only LiveCD I know of uses an earlier
> version of zfs.

Boot with "-m milestone=none" as an argument on your kernel line in
grub. That will get you to a console you can use to recover things.

Jamon



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