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I tried to install VMware Tools on my Fedora but after I copied the tarball into Desktop directory, I cannot use sudo any more. I tried chown to fix it but it didn't work either. I am new to Fedora and I found a similar problem in this link Changing ownership of ‘/usr/bin/’: Operation not permitted, however the answer only works for Ubuntu. I wonder how I can fix my problem.

[bunny@fedora gawk-5.1.1]$ su
Password: 
su: cannot set groups: Operation not permitted

[bunny@fedora /]$ $sudo chown root /usr/bin
chown: changing ownership of '/usr/bin': Operation not permitted
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  • What made you decide that changing ownership of `/usr/bin` was the step you needed to take? (Can you show `ls -ld /usr/bin`, please?) How does does `sudo` fail in general for other things? (You note that you can't use it anymore?) – mattdm Nov 08 '21 at 16:44
  • @mattdm Thank you, yesterday I chose to reinstall my Fedora system because I had to solve this problem quickly. I searched the "su: cannot set groups: Operation not permitted" problem online and changing ownership seemed to be the only solution. I am sorry that I forgot to record the result of `ls -ld /usr/bin`. – user17135311 Nov 09 '21 at 14:32
  • It might have been that, but that might have been a red herring. Oh well -- glad it works for you now! – mattdm Nov 09 '21 at 23:12

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