Questions tagged [system-recovery]
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Locked out: overwrote /etc/shadow and /etc/grub.d with pacnew
After all these years of using Linux, I have never goofed up this badly. I should have known better, I honestly don't know what I was thinking.
While trying to fix a small error message I was getting (...
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Mac OS 10.12 - Accidentally Unlinked libz.1.dylib
Ran:
unlink /usr/lib/libz.1.dylib
Now I can't launch from my user profile.
I have been able to run in recovery mode, where I can see the .dylib in question is there, but running in single-user mode I ...
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Is it possible to switch to active Linux installation from Recovery mode?
Noob here. I have Pop OS 20.04 installed on my laptop. I've been getting these sudden freeze-outs where I get dialogues like "disk is read-only" when I'm doing something. Then I restart, and ...
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Clonezilla restoring to a different partition
After a crash on my hard drive, I had to start from scratch. I reorganized the different systems and their appropriate partitions.
I had the required partitions and their sizes set up.
The only ...
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How to reset “wm size” changes from recovery or unlock android phone with graphic key via keyboard/mouse?
After entering wm size 1920x1080 in terminal I was unable to reset this setting.
Now I have TWRP running and no information about how wm store its parameters in memory. Using adb is not possible (for ...
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DualBoot Ubuntu / Windows and grub
i'm trying to remove my dual boot because my PC is lagging and I need to reinstall Windows and clean up a lot.
So , right click on windows , disk manager , and remove my Ubuntu partition.
Problem :...
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Accidentally deleted /usr/ directory in CentOS 8
Accidentally /usr/ directory got deleted, in Cent OS 8. For recovering CentOS, I have found this link which needs live CentOS 8 installed in USB drive. However CentOS 8 doesn't have live ISO release ...
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Ubuntu stops at booting
My laptop came with ubuntu lts preinstalled, i installed kde desktop&co via neon package sources. I've been using it for couple of months well-working. I left my laptop for acouple of minutes, and ...
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Can't Login to Fedora 31 After System Restore
I'm new here, so I apologize in advance for how ineptly I may ask this question.
I recently had to restore my entire Fedora 31 system from a backup made with Rsnapshot. (I had intended to make ...
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Modify /etc/passwd file without logging in
I was experimenting with the /etc/passwd file in my Ubuntu 18.04. I rebooted my machine to check whether the changes are affected. But unfortunately I am not even able to go to the login screen.
The ...
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Initrd - rebooting issue
I recently booted into Root via Ubuntu kernel recovery mode. When I finished what I was doing, and not altering anything in my system, I tried to reboot with shutdown -r now. This started various ...
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How do I recover deleted files?
Today I mistakenly deleted files inside the public_html folder.
There is no backup of deleted files.
Is there a way to recover information?
thanks
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Linux kernel development dual booting Linux/Windows
I want to get into kernel development, and the first practical step is obviously to run a Linux kernel to develop.
I think the best solution for me would be to dual boot windows and Linux, with Linux ...
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Recover deleted files from a virtual disk image
I need help.
Accidentally, all files from root were deleted. It was not me)
It is easy if there would be simple disk partition. But, there is logical volumes used.
Centos 7
KVM
QEMU
$ ll server.img
-...
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Why is mv failing in this (bash) shell script in bash 3.2 during Mac OS recovery mode?
I'm trying to move some files using a bash script on a mac during recovery mode. I can successfully move the files by manually entering the command in Terminal after booting into recovery. However, ...
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Got stuck in Emergency mode with ACPI Error
I am using ubuntu 16.04. I probably have done sth which damaged the system file. After reboot, I am stucked in emergency mode. The error is about ACPI like below. I am not sure what is wrong here. ...
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Accidently moved /usr/lib64 how can I restore
I was trying to free up space and clueless moved /usr/lib64/ to "/srv/maraba_ssd_scratch/apelin/root_files/usr_lib64". The next thing I was going to do is create a symlink in usr for lib64 to point to ...
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Is it possible to recover overwritten files from another operating System on the current operating system?
On my PC I had 2 operating sytems (ubuntu and windows) and for about 5 days I wanted to reinstall my Windows OS because of some bugs but instead of installing it on the partition where my old version ...
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How can you complete a Debian installation interrupted just before “Finish installation”?
I am trying to get Debian installed on a device that doesn't have enough battery capacity to power the display on full brightness for long enough to complete an installation, even while plugged in. I'...
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Ubuntu 18.4.2 failsafex running in low graphics mode
Ubuntu fail safex running in low graphics mode
I changed my theme from unity to gnome from ubuntu login and forgot to change the display manager to gdm3.
And then I restarted low graphics mode.
So ...
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Change permisions of a file with my cat's help
root@system:~# less myfile
-bash: /bin/less: Input/output error
The root filesystem is dead. But my cat is still alive (in my memory):
root@system:~# cat > /tmp/somefile
C^d
root@system:~#
He's ...
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Trouble on Debian boot up “Timed out waiting for device dev-disk…”
I can't boot my Debian 9.5 with following errors. If I remember correctly ACPI Errors were shown every time I turn on PC. But computer always boot right with these errors, so I didn't care much. The ...
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Cannot log in because of corrupted .bash_profile [duplicate]
I have created a new user account.
I can't access it because of a .bash_profile error.
How can I repair this type of error?
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How to import bash history with correct time&date from a history output?
I have a file with my bash history and want to "import" the commands on a new machine. The file contains a history output formatted as HISTTIMEFORMAT="%F%t%T%t":
$ history > history.txt
So the ...
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/var/lib/dpkg/ disappeared after fsck
All apt-like commands failed to create the lock file, because /var/lib/dpkg/ doesn't exist. Also, /lost+found/ has contents:
pi@pi-top:~ $ sudo ls -al /lost+found/
total 102456
drwx------ 11 root ...
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CentOS trying to mount non existant RAID array -> recovery mode
My first try using RAID1 ended with CentOS not starting anymore - throwing me into Recovery mode. Luckily a test system
At first i set-up the raid1 which worked rather good. Later i noticed that my ...
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Failure to boot after running bash script
I just recently ran a bash script that froze up my Linux mint machine, and I had no choice but to hold power key to perform a hard power off.
Now my machine will not boot.
I have no clue if the bash ...
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busybox and nfs mounts
As part of a startup a rescuecd uses busybox to mount a nfs share with data, but during the nfs share mount, busybox (version v1.18.2 from systemrescuecd) always fails to mount the nfs share. And i do ...
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recovery boot hangs at “systemd[1]: Listening on Journal Socket”
Can no longer boot into Debian testing, possibly because I accidentally uninstalled some undocumentedly critical package.
In regular boot, system hangs after confirming that the root fs is clean.
In ...
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Linux Mint kernel damage
First off: I am running Linux Mint 18.2 on an External HDD with Gnome 3 as my desktop.
Recently, I was trying to figure out how to compress my OS so I could move it to a different system. So, I ran:
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Can't log in because I forgot my user name
My friend had put Linux Mint 17.3 Cinnamon 64 bit on my computer. Well, I forgot the user name, so I did a search on the Net for "forgot username linux" and came here.
I got the suggestion to hit '...
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How to avoid a situation where the system is too out-of-memory to even show or kill processes?
I recently ran into a situation where a system was too out-of-memory to even run pkill or htop, or to even create a swap file.
(But somehow I could still SSH into the system, so at least I had a ...
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Delete file in hard drive root folder using recovery disk
I made changes to my xorg.conf file in /etc/X11/ after backing it up.
Some bad things happened and now I cannot access tty or the logon screen.
The only way is via a recovery USB drive.
How can I ...
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What command is run when the dpkg option is selected in recovery mode?
I recently ran into the following situation:
I could not boot my computer normally. (I was shown a blinking cursor after the boot-loader and Ubunutu load screen but before the login page while never ...
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Did Windows update corrupt a Linux partition? [closed]
I have a dual boot system with Linux Mint 18.1 and Windows 10, which I only use occasionally. I booted into Windows 10, and it started applying updates. Upon restarts I was presented with the:
error: ...
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Reinstalling only packages with missing or corrupt files on a non-running system?
1st. Thanks in advance.
This is somewhat like # 216697: Reinstalling packages with missing/corrupt files except in that person's situation, after recovery, the system still worked. Mine does not. Can'...
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How to recoever after executing rm -f /bin/su; rm -f /usr/bin/sudo (with correct privileges)?
This is a theoretical question. What if I run those commands with correct privileges? How could I restore su and sudo?
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Can I create a Live DVD of my currently running Debian system?
Can I create a live CD of my currently running Debian setup? (Debian 9.1 with KDE with all the configurations I made, all the packages I installed and some files.)
How can I do that?
And in addition ...
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Set permissions using chmod whilst in the wrong directory
I was doing a magento patch via Terminal and ran the following commands whilst in / rather than /public_html
find . -type d -exec chmod 500 {} \;
find . -type f -exec chmod 400 {} \;
find var/ -type ...
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Can `chmod -R 777 /bin` be recovered from?
I know that chmod -R 777 / is extremely destructive, and I know that a chmod -R 000 /bin can be recovered by using an additional disk, but I'm wondering about chmod -R 777 /bin.
If I have a root ...
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I overwrote all libraries in /lib64 by accident, how to fix?
I accidentally used windows copy syntax when copying libraries from one folder to another:
mv /usr/local/lib/libboost** /lib64/*
This overwrote all libraries needed to run the system. The only ...
asked May 24 '17 at 13:26
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How to recover Ubuntu?
This question has come from the previous question I asked in this site.
My laptop has 2 Operating systems of Ubuntu as can be seen in the screen-shot below. The one where I logged in is visible in ...
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Recover Debian 8.7 after accidently purging essential packages [closed]
Trying to get rid of strange startup errors I purged some of the essential packages. My xfce4 doesn't start on boot, which is not too bad, I still have the tty, but I also have no network connection, ...
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unix - accidentally moved everything under root to /old - Solaris 10
As the headline says everything or almost everything important as root under root (/) was moved to /old on a Solaris 10 machine. So now the typical fault when trying when running commands are Cannot ...
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Linux Slackware ( Broken - kernel panic )
I wanted to update my system (Slackware current) which was in multilib. Before updating, I tried to remove all packages (compat32 and multilib). Big mistake !!! This have broken some crucial symlinks ...
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Fix corrupt /bin/sh link
I used to access it via SSH but I wanted to connect to it with zsh instead of bash.
I made a mistake with my Synology NAS:
I deleted the /bin/sh symbolic link to /bin/bash to replace it with /bin/...
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reset $SHELL to it's default value [duplicate]
I read the answers on those questions (this && this), neither of them work for me!
% uname --operating-system --kernel-name --kernel-version --kernel-release
Linux 4.9.6-200.fc25.x86_64 #1 ...
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Creating recovarable disk image [closed]
Laptop I want to buy comes with preinstalled windows 10. I want to install linux on this laptop but I want to have option to recover windows (reset to factory settings). Because of that I want to make ...
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Debian computer: usr part corrupt
I have a Debian-Windows dualbooted machine. I've split up all areas into separate parts, eg. boot, var, tmp, etc... are all partitions. Now I can't boot Linux because the usr partition is giving I/O ...
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Kali Linux hangs on boot after hard reset
I had to perform a hard reset after my machine became unresponsive. Now when I try to boot, it hangs as shown in this image: .
I am able to boot into recovery mode, so have access to a terminal I can ...
