I am using Manjaro KDE. I installed lxd using the official arch wiki. There was some issue. It was not working. Someone recommended using snap. So, I followed the uninstall guide from arch wiki. Everything worked fine but the last command to remove all data. I got read only error. So, I googled and tried to change the permission of all files under the /var/lib/lxd. But, I ran the chmod command accidentally in /var/lib.
Here is the command I used. chmod -R o+rwx *
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)
Please help me. I’m in big trouble. I was just installing lxd for learning purposes and I messed us with my system.
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
AFAIK o+rwx means - remove read, write and execute permission from others.
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/.
