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Alisdair Kelly Offline

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Posted: Sep. 16 2004,13:12

Well, here's a mystery for you. I booted up my DSL box yesterday after it being shut down for maybe 4-5 days. When the login in prompt came up and I entered my user name and password I kept getting an 'invalid login" message. Finally logged in as root in order to finsih booting up. When the OS finally completed booting, I discovered that all of the dsl extensions that I'd installed were missing from the MyDSL folder/directory. I also could not find either of the users that I'd created on the box, nor the group that was allowed to burn CDs without being root.

The dsl extensions I can live with out or can replace with apt-get since this is a hdd installtion. What truly puzzles me is the fact that there is not a trace of them remaining and that the users turned into vapor. Any ideas or suggestions would be useful and apprciated. I may take this topic to some of the Linux groups on USENET to see if anyone there might have any ideas.

I'll be in and out today and will check back periodically as I rebuild this installaion.

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Alisidair

(or you can call me Al)

AwPhuch

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Posted: Sep. 16 2004,15:17

Quote (Alisdair Kelly @ Sep. 16 2004,09:12)

Did you have your .dsl in a fat32 partition??

Perhaps someone "fatfingered" em and they got erased from the M$ OS?

Brian
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Alisdair Kelly Offline

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Posted: Sep. 16 2004,16:11

Quote (AwPhuch @ Sep. 16 2004,11:17)

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Did you have your .dsl in a fat32 partition??

Perhaps someone "fatfingered" em and they got erased from the M$ OS?

Brian
AwPhuch

Hi Brian,
No the installation was on a 40 gd Maxtor hdd with nothing else installed. Partitions are a Linux partition and a Linux swap partition totaling about 5 GB. Rest is free unused space that is not formatted.

Since I'm the only one that uses the box I can't claim that I'm immune from the 'fat finger syndrome'. But with no MS products on here, I haven't a clue as to where the goodies went or where my alter-ego the users went either.

The dsl extentions that I lost were LinNeighborhood, Samba, Gcombust (no loss there) and Whitebox (big loss). I've also apparently lost Synaptic (installed with apt-get), the book marks that were in the Firefox directory, and a big directory of downloads (they were at least backed up to a CD) too.

Box is hooked up to a big UPS and no storms here locally of late. Shut it down normally last time I was using it. Only thing that I remember doing was to edit the xinint file to eliminate the 'Dillo splash screen on booting to Fluxbox.

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Alisidair

(or you can call me Al)

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