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I have a problem.

I was running bash in my terminal and when I executed the mv command, I got an error saying exec: mv: permission denied. I thought it was like my other permission errors, and so I ran sudo mv file folder, which gave me the same error.

I went to google the problem, but Firefox couldn't open, because of permission errors.

Because of all this, I rebooted (which worked, strangely, so it seems to only affect my user)

But X11 hanged when starting, so I switched to a TTY. (tty2 if that helps) I typed in my username and password, but my shell wouldn't start because of (you've probably guessed by now).

I would log into another user, but I only have the one and root doesn't have a password.

I'm writing this from my phone, but my computer's running Linux 5.8.34-generic Ubuntu MATE 20.10 and my own desktop environment.

Update:

I've installed Kubuntu now. That makes it the ninth Linux distribution I've installed in six months... I have a separate /home partition and a script for generating scripts that reinstall all my packages.

kettle
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  • Sounds like you did something else. Getting `permission denied` after `mv` should mean that your system hasn't changed. Are you sure you didn't run anything else before the errors started appearing? – Panki Jan 04 '21 at 08:15
  • Come to think of it, I was installing [curly](https://curly-lang.org) as root in another terminal... – kettle Jan 04 '21 at 22:31
  • Logged in with systemd emergency mode and everything in my bin folder has executable perms (-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root) – kettle Jan 04 '21 at 22:49
  • `Jan 05 11:47:18 Laptop su[1769]: pam_systemd(su-1:session): Failed to connect to system bus: No such file or directory` – kettle Jan 04 '21 at 23:04
  • Okay, first error message in the logs is `Jan... Laptop systemd[982]: systemd-timesyncd.service: Failed to execute command: Permission denied` – kettle Jan 04 '21 at 23:14
  • Y'know, I've been thinking of trying Kubuntu for a while... – kettle Jan 04 '21 at 23:17

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