recovery from stupid error

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Donnerstag, den 14.07.2005, 15:25 +1000 schrieb skaller:
> On Ubuntu, Hoary:
> 
> I just accidentally deleted my home directory :)
> 
> The result is catastrophic: 
> 
> (a) The system will not permit a login as root.
> (b) The only way to recreate the user so Gnome works
> is as root
> 
> Now, I have fixed this because I can can log in 
> as root on a terminal, run startx, and then delete
> myself as a user, add myself back, and now I at
> least have a desktop.
why didnt you run a recovery session from the grub bootmenu ? ubuntu
comes with a predefined set of bootmenu options (accessible by pressing
esc if grub showns up in the bootprocess) like a memtest or even a
recovery session that lets you work as root on a broken system.
no need to add a root account and fiddle with it in X.

but anyway, this question belongs to ubuntu-users....

ciao
	oli
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