Greetings; I had my boot drives partition table zeroed out last night by something unk, and then X froze. Tapping the reset button is SOP here for that, but its been weeks since X has locked up like that. On the reboot, no dice. Screens full of 'GRUB'. Boot f8 dvd in rescue mode, find partition table has been zeroed out on the boot drive. As in all balls folks. And no copy of it was available on another media, so, screw it, go ahead and install F8, using only that drive. That went swimmingly. I've used both amanda, and early on, dd to recover enough from my amandatapes to get amanda installed and running again. But in the process of dd'ing that, the user, me, got overwritten in /home cuz I grabbed the whole /home tree as saved from the FC6 install. So, can I, as root, copy that /home/gene tree to /home/gene.old, remove that user and then adduser again, then copy stuff back a bit more selectively this time and have it work ok again? It makes sense anyway. My initial login to x was as gene, then su - to run such as yum, amrecover etc. Symptoms ATM for the user gene are that the kmenu looks good, but clicking on anything in it to run it fails, apparently silently. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) WHERE CAN THE MATTER BE Oh, dear, where can the matter be When it's converted to energy? There is a slight loss of parity. Johnny's so long at the fair.
