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So I accidentally did sudo chmod -R 775 / when I meant to do sudo chmod -R 775 ./. I quickly realized and hit Ctrl^C, but not in time to save everything. I realize this is a really stupid mistake and all that but I'm aware of that and I would just like to fix my OS now.

Anyway, this completely broke my OS (Ubuntu 12.04). Currently, several functions of the shell, including tab completion prints the error

bash: cannot create temp file for here

And running any bash command that I have tried on any file in my home (/home/$USER) folder crashes the terminal. Several other random things don't work around the OS now.

hg8
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Back-up important files (if you have any) after booting from a live-cd, then reinstall system. This is the only option that I know of.

Daniel
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