On Saturday 05 January 2008, Gene Heskett wrote: >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. Ok, I did that, but had to correct the userid and groupid of gene in those two files, and a boatload of chown -R gene:gene, here and there but I think its working now. -- 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) UFOs are for real: the Air Force doesn't exist.
