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Don-DiZzLe

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From: Nederland

Registered: 2007-03-31

Posts: 233

Accidently FSlint-ed / [SOLVED]

Hi,

I accidently fslint-ed my root dir in gnome 2.30 and deleted all the empty folders and temp files.
But now when i try to start arch, at the startup screen it says "cant mount local point /dev/shm and /dev/pts.

And when i finally login in gnome, i have to manually as root mkdir /dev/shm and chmod 777 /dev/shm in order to get
online with chromium. Also i cant use the terminal anymore, when i start a terminal it says "there was an error creating the
child process for this terminal"

Any ideas on how to fix this without doing a fresh install?

Last edited by Don-DiZzLe (2010-04-17 18:34:40)

Don-DiZzLe

Member

From: Nederland

Registered: 2007-03-31

Posts: 233

Re: Accidently FSlint-ed / [SOLVED]

Bump!

skottish

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From: Here

Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: Accidently FSlint-ed / [SOLVED]

I'm in over my head here, but I do know that udev creates the /dev entries with their permissions. Since your system is complaining about not being able to mount /dev/shm and /dev/pts, the first place that I would look into is that the udev install was broken somehow...

-- or --

It's a nice conversation starter.

some-guy94

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Registered: 2009-08-15

Posts: 360

Re: Accidently FSlint-ed / [SOLVED]

Hi,

I accidently fslint-ed my root dir in gnome 2.30 and deleted all the empty folders and temp files.
But now when i try to start arch, at the startup screen it says "cant mount local point /dev/shm and /dev/pts.

And when i finally login in gnome, i have to manually as root mkdir /dev/shm and chmod 777 /dev/shm in order to get
online with chromium. Also i cant use the terminal anymore, when i start a terminal it says "there was an error creating the
child process for this terminal"

Any ideas on how to fix this without doing a fresh install?

Re-install everything?

pacman -S $(pacman -Qq)

Don-DiZzLe

Member

From: Nederland

Registered: 2007-03-31

Posts: 233

Re: Accidently FSlint-ed / [SOLVED]

Well i reinstalled udev and its mounting fine now, however im still getting one error at gdm startup: gconf-sanity-check-2 exited with error 256

Its not life threatening, but how do i get rid of it?

skottish

Forum Fellow

From: Here

Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: Accidently FSlint-ed / [SOLVED]

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=917306

Still, some-guy94 may have the best advice.

Don-DiZzLe

Member

From: Nederland

Registered: 2007-03-31

Posts: 233

Re: Accidently FSlint-ed / [SOLVED]

Nvm i fixed it, i just reinstalled gconf and error gone.