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Much to my surprise I was unable to boot my F-20/64bit [box10] computer
this morning.
Booting from rescue on the install DVD shows that there is no user
listed under /home. I was able to add user rfg with a password but still
can't boot normally and user "rfg" is empty anyway.
I can't even guess why this has happened and it looks to me like the
simplest thing will be to re-install?
Any suggestions before I start that process will be appreciated; I don't
expect much though,
Bob
--
http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD
box7 Fedora-20/64bit Linux/XFCE
Allegedly, on or about 01 March 2014, Bob Goodwin sent:
Last thing I did was put an audio book on a flash drive. In order to
clear the flash drive I always cd to it and and "rm -fr *". I've been
doing that for the last 8 years, never a problem.
Sounds like you may have changed to the wrong directory. If you
accidentally hit enter after "cd" (so that you just issued the cd
command, without a directory), you'd have changed to your home
directory.
I'm always super cautious with recursive and wildcard deleting, if you
do it badly, you can match on .. and go back *up* the directory tree.
--
[tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64
All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point
trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the
public lists.
George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not
a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments.
On 03/01/14 13:12, g wrote:
>
> I don't expect much though,
you do have your share of problems. ;-)
g
It's done, the re-install is running now.
I know when it happened but not why. Last thing I did was put an audio
book on a flash drive. In order to clear the flash drive I always cd to
it and and "rm -fr *". I've been doing that for the last 8 years, never
a problem.
Last night after doing that I closed the things I normally close and
clicked on "Shutdown." For whatever reason it did a number on my
/home/bobg/ directory and I know not what else?
Should not have happened but ... I will use more care in shutting down
in the future ...
Bob
--
http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD
box7 Fedora-20/64bit Linux/XFCE
good morning bob,
On 03/01/14 21:57, Bob Goodwin wrote:
Much to my surprise I was unable to boot my F-20/64bit [box10]
computer this morning.
Booting from rescue on the install DVD shows that there is no user
listed under /home. I was able to add user rfg with a password but
still can't boot normally and user "rfg" is empty anyway.
if you have '/home' as a _partition_, it should show up in root
path when you 'change path' in rescue mode.
if you boot a 'live' disk, to find what you have in _home_ in
_partition_, you will need to mount partition to to see user
directories.
if you do have home in a partition, check '/etc/fstab' to insure
that it is still there.
if '/home' is a partition, when you boot system, do you see it
mount in 'mtab'?
also, look in '/etc' at files 'group', 'gshadow',
'passwd',
'shadow', and 'shadow-npw' to see if user is still listed.
I can't even guess why this has happened and it looks to me like
the simplest thing will be to re-install?
first check above.
Any suggestions before I start that process will be appreciated;
I don't expect much though,
you do have your share of problems. ;-)
--
peace out.
in a world with out fences, who needs gates.
tc.hago.
g
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