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#1 2006-03-29 10:06:20
- trapdoor
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I messed up my System with dotpac (solved)
Hey guys,
I think i got some serious problem here. I just installed dotpac and removed all old files with the new .pacsave files. No i can't log in as root anymore, because i removed the passwd file...
Any idea what to do now?
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#2 2006-03-29 10:10:36
- pressh
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Re: I messed up my System with dotpac (solved)
chroot into your environment and create a new one?
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#3 2006-03-29 10:32:06
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Re: I messed up my System with dotpac (solved)
So i boot from the arch install cd, chroot in my enviroment and then copy the /etc path from the cd to my enviroment?
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#4 2006-03-29 10:35:49
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Re: I messed up my System with dotpac (solved)
So i boot from the arch install cd, chroot in my enviroment and then copy the /etc path from the cd to my enviroment?
I would just boot from a livecd (could be arch install cd) chroot into your environment (as a root user 
), and because you're root, you can just issue passwd.
This worked for me back in time on gentoo, so that should still work I guess.
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#5 2006-03-29 10:46:09
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Re: I messed up my System with dotpac (solved)
pressh is correct, also adding "single" to ur kernel line in grub might work too hopefully it won't ask for a password... ok i know u can't edit ur menu.lst, but u can always press "e" to edit the grub line before booting it in grub
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#6 2006-03-29 15:56:56
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Re: I messed up my System with dotpac (solved)
I got it, with chrooting into my enviroment, but it still is a lot of work to make everything as it was.
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#7 2006-03-29 19:47:17
- elasticdog
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Re: I messed up my System with dotpac (solved)
See http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=11728 and add yer tale Just kidding matey...glad you got it working again, that would scare the livin' daisies out of me!
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