Accidentally gave all permissions to /var/lib

[ishaan2479]

@amartyasinha918

There was some issue. It was not working. Someone recommended using snap.

Don’t blindly follow “someone” on the internet and run commands like this. If you think the command can potentially harm your system, first make a backup or try it in a virtual machine or ask on forum.manjaro.org

@amartyasinha918

But, I ran the chmod command accidentally in /var/lib.
Here is the command I used.
chmod -R o+rwx *

AFAIK o+rwx means - remove read, write and execute permission from others.

@amartyasinha918

Now, the permission of all directories are changed. Whenever I’m trying to use snap to install any app, I am getting the following error.

error: cannot perform the following tasks:
- Run install hook of "lxd" snap if present (run hook "install": /var/lib/snapd has 'other' write 40757)

This error message is complaining about the permissions on the /var/lib directory. With these permissions a regular user can create a file named like /var/lib/whatever which is wrong and has the potential to cause problems.

The default permission for /var/lib is 755 = rwxr-xr-x: readable and executable (you need both for a directory) by everyone, and only writable by root.

Make a backup of your current system and follow this guide. You can use /var/lib instead of /var/.

Setting correct permissions for /var directory recursively

Hi @Llama I would advice you to correct all permissions by re-applying them from the database: sudo pacman -Sy pacutils Check the files: pacman -Qq | sudo pacman -Qkk Repair it: find /var | sudo pacrepairfile --uid --gid --mode Next time use rsync to preserve permissions.