[Tfug] Bizarre permissions situation...

[Terence Rudkin]

The parent has too restrictive of permissions

sudo chmod 777 /media

may be extreme but illustrates  the issue

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Jim March <1.jim.march at gmail.com> wrote:

> Y'all will love this one.
>
> I'm running Karmic 64bit on my Dell lappy.  I got ahold of a new ("to
> me") MP3 player, a Sandisk E260.  Has 4gigs of flash formatted FAT32.
>
> In order to mount it I have to do a terminal number:
>
> sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/disk
>
> OK...but then I don't have permissions for it as a regular user.
>
> No problem, I do "gksudo nautilus" and try and reset
> permissions/ownership for /media/disk...it won't let me.  Huh?
> Arright, so assuming Nautilus has lost it's mind, I try the same with
> Thunar.  No joy there either - even running it as "god" it won't reset
> permissions.  It WILL let me read from and write to the device using
> GUI tools under gksudo...just won't let me reset permissions.
>
> So figuring my GUI has gone kerpooey somehow, I jump to the terminal,
> and get this:
>
> ---
> jim at thecritter:/media$ chown jim /media/disk
> chown: changing ownership of `/media/disk': Operation not permitted
> jim at thecritter:/media$ sudo chown jim /media/disk
> [sudo] password for jim:
> chown: changing ownership of `/media/disk': Operation not permitted
> jim at thecritter:
> ---
>
> What...the...hell?  It's as if I don't have root access anymore.
>
> Except...I do!  I can do "sudo nautilus" and drop a blank test file
> into places like /bin I normally don't have access to...then go in
> normally, try and delete, permission failure.  So sudo/gksudo are
> *working*...just not on this flash device.
>
> Whaaaaaaaa!
>
> :)
>
> Seriously, WTF?
>
> Jim
>
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