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#1 2006-12-01 00:58:09

Kenetixx
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Dunno what happened!!!

Not sure if this should go here or somewhere else, placed in Newbie corner becasue my daughter is a Newbie.

Last night i left my pc on like normal before i went to bed, the only difference was i left a terminal window open logged in as root while it was upgrading. Got up this morning to my 3 year old daughter sitting infront of my PC with a blask screen in front of her., Just thought it was normal at this stage, moved her out of the way and went to get on my PC, tapped keyboard and nothing???? Thouhgt i may have just froze or something rebooted PC and then kernel panic no file system found???
Loaded up the arch disc and rebooted, tried to boot into arch ,. no fils system, checked my main HDD yep no files all completly gone deleted. I have no idea what my daughter did btu she had some how deleted everything on the HDD well it looks ike it was formatted actually, no idea.
Anyway dont take it for granted that because your kids are young they cant harm your PC neutral


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#2 2006-12-01 01:09:07

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Re: Dunno what happened!!!

well that'll be the last time you leave a root terminal open wink

If you're using reiserfs you may be able to get it back. Or at least the important data:
http://antrix.net/journal/techtalk/reis … o.comments

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#3 2006-12-01 01:22:41

Kenetixx
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Re: Dunno what happened!!!

Thanks T-Dawg, not really much on there to get back luckly, so ill just reinstall when i get home. I wont be leaving root terminal open again , i know that.


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#4 2006-12-01 01:36:22

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Re: Dunno what happened!!!

For next time, you can use "screen" to lock the terminal, or to even background the upgrade and log out.


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#5 2006-12-01 02:33:18

Kenetixx
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Re: Dunno what happened!!!

Yeah well usally i do lock the screen but it was late and i was tired and forgot , so my mistake.


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#6 2006-12-01 03:57:07

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Re: Dunno what happened!!!

I think he's talking about the program screen. It will allow you to run commands in it then detach from it without killing the process.

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#7 2006-12-01 06:37:32

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Re: Dunno what happened!!!

OK sounds interesting, any links ??


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#8 2006-12-01 08:25:17

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Re: Dunno what happened!!!

satanix wrote:

OK sounds interesting, any links ??

http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/

Lets you do lots of other cool stuff as well.


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#9 2006-12-01 08:39:54

Kenetixx
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Re: Dunno what happened!!!

Thanks chrismortimore , will give it a go , it looks interesting


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#10 2006-12-01 08:46:45

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Re: Dunno what happened!!!

She must have accidently pressed somehting like

fdisk -b 512 -H 255 -S 62 /dev/hda

and then cancelled it with Ctrl+c while he was partitioning. Ah, such is youth. ;D

No seriously what could she possibly have done to leave the system with broken file system and blank screen? Could there have been some harmful code in the command history and she pressed Ctrl+r and enter maybe?

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#11 2006-12-01 08:54:33

Kenetixx
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Re: Dunno what happened!!!

all that was in the terminal was pacman, so who knows
she does it to my wifes windows machine and opens up stuff i have never seen before or dont know howw to get too, she is going to be a h@x0r tongue


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#12 2006-12-01 08:56:40

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Re: Dunno what happened!!!

So no ~/.bash_history either?


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#13 2006-12-01 09:11:03

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Re: Dunno what happened!!!

satanix wrote:

she is going to be a h@x0r!

Oh yea. Crashed her first file system at the age of three.. jesus. Keep here away from the internet a little longer please. big_smile
Maybe it has to do with the recent Kernel update (2.6.18-4) - if she was doing something while the files were being copied onto the hdd.. maybe..

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#14 2006-12-01 10:46:16

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Re: Dunno what happened!!!

aww bless her
ehhehe x)


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#15 2006-12-01 13:40:02

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Re: Dunno what happened!!!

I'd just like to applaud the arch community for not screaming "YOU ARE STOOPID, WHERE ARE YOUR BACKUPS????"  The amount of relish some folks post those sorts of responses with is absurd.


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#16 2006-12-02 01:44:06

Kenetixx
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Re: Dunno what happened!!!

I dont ever back really, i just dont put important files on my main HDD never have and never will , i keep all files i want to keep on 2 sepearte HDDs 1 in my system and the other a USB drive


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