Re: Accidentally deleted some files from /var
On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 02:03:42AM +0530, Deepak, R. wrote:
> I accidentally deleted some files from /var . Can I repair the system? How?
>
> Now, gdm does not start but gives this error message:
> Server Authorization directory (daemon/ServAuthDir) is set to
> /var/lib/gdm but this does not exist. Please correct gdm
> configuration /etc/gdm/gdm.conf and restart gdm.
>
> /etc/init.d/gdm start:
> I cannot start the X server (your graphical
> interface). It is likely that it is not set
> up correctly. Would you like to view the X
> server output to diagnose the problem?
> The X server output is empty.
>
> ls --all --format=long /var/lib/gdm:
> total 8
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 02-07 01:30 .
> drwxr-xr-x 63 root root 4096 02-06 22:53 ..
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 01-26 23:26 .fonts.cache-1
>
> Thanks in advance.
> --
> Deepak, R. <http://research.iiit.ac.in/~masatran/>
>
Not any help for you right now, but I have a sript running as a daily
cron job that does
tree -afi / > /root/store/tree
bzip2 /root/store/tree
which would come in useful in your situation. Just run the tree command
again (btw, the package for tree is called, err, tree :)) and have a
look at the (graphical) diff. Not like the need for this has ever arisen
for me, but I am a bit of a maniac when it comes to backup and the
likes.
Just a thought for future occasions of inadvertent deletion.
Andreas
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