Re: [tlug] Computer fails to boot

["David Bernat" <dbernat@example.com>]

"David Bernat" <dbernat@example.com> wrote:

>I am now going to reboot the laptop to test whether chmod had any effect.

chmod had no effect on permissions for /bin/dash

More information, whether pertinent or not:

knoppix generates fstab containing

/proc      /proc       proc   rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0
/sys       /sys        sysfs  rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0
/dev/shm   /dev/shm    tmpfs  rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0
/dev/pts   /dev/pts    devpts mode=0622           0 0
/dev/fd0   /media/fd0  auto   user,noauto,exec,umask=000    0 0
/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom  auto   user,noauto,exec,ro 0 0
/dev/hda /media/hda  auto   users,noauto,exec,ro 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/sda1 /media/sda1 ext3 noauto,users,exec 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/sda5 none swap defaults 0 0

Why isn't Kubuntu doing the same?