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Title: `rm -rf /home/zaurus` by accident
Post by: suruaZ on October 27, 2004, 06:23:50 am

Accidentally deleted /home/zaurus folder
Now can't start GUI - init eight times tried to start QT unsuccesfully and then prints:
"INIT: ld "ln" respawing too fast: disabled for 5 mintues."

I'm still able to login as root in console mode. Is there a way to fix the issue???

suruaZ

Title: `rm -rf /home/zaurus` by accident
Post by: tumnus on October 27, 2004, 07:31:20 am

Whoops. Been there, done that on my PC (I now have cron jobs setup to do automatic backups).

You'll have to restore the original files in /home/zaurus. I doubt you can use 'recover' since the filesystem is in RAM on your 5500.

To restore the original files:

1) Login to the console as root
2) cd /
3) tar xvf /root/.home_default.tar home/zaurus

(Note there is no '/' at the beginning of the 'home/zaurus' in the command above)

Title: `rm -rf /home/zaurus` by accident
Post by: suruaZ on October 27, 2004, 09:19:10 am

Quote

1) Login to the console as root
2) cd /
3) tar xvf /root/.home_default.tar home/zaurus

Thanks tumnus! This made things to work again  

suruaZ