good morning bob, On 03/01/14 21:57, Bob Goodwin wrote:
Much to my surprise I was unable to boot my F-20/64bit [box10]
> computer this morning.
Booting from rescue on the install DVD shows that there is no user listed under /home. I was able to add user rfg with a password but
> still can't boot normally and user "rfg" is empty anyway. if you have '/home' as a _partition_, it should show up in root path when you 'change path' in rescue mode. if you boot a 'live' disk, to find what you have in _home_ in _partition_, you will need to mount partition to to see user directories. if you do have home in a partition, check '/etc/fstab' to insure that it is still there. if '/home' is a partition, when you boot system, do you see it mount in 'mtab'? also, look in '/etc' at files 'group', 'gshadow', 'passwd', 'shadow', and 'shadow-npw' to see if user is still listed.
I can't even guess why this has happened and it looks to me like
> the simplest thing will be to re-install? first check above.
Any suggestions before I start that process will be appreciated;
> I don't expect much though, you do have your share of problems. ;-) -- peace out. in a world with out fences, who needs gates. tc.hago. g . -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
