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I use debian jessie and I have done one of those bad mistakes and broke my system with a mistyped command and worse mistakes that follow in such situations.

Trying to fix some permissions I mistakenly used chmod recursively on root folder:

# chmod -R 0644 /

and then realizing immediately I rushed in doing something to stop it but the system was frozen and the worse mistake was the hard powering off the system.

Now I think I have some user manager problem and after booting with some "failed to start service" messages I don't have the Gnome user login and I can't also login in console. And this is what that flashes several times and then stays on screen:

[ ok ] Created slice user-113.slice
       Starting user manager for UID 113...  
[ ok ] Started user manager for UID 113  
[ ok ] Stopped user manager for UID 113  
[ ok ] Removed slice user-113.slice 

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