Don't tell me you always login as root do you :-) ?
Anyway, if you had to recreate your /root directory then yes you are running everything
for the first time again. Try looking in the /lost+found directory to see if you can
retrieve anything.
Nico
On Sun, Aug 06, 2000 at 06:23:29PM -0300, Rob Smith wrote:
> I had a problem were I had to hit reset on the box (I now that is bad to start)
> When rebooting filesystem failed so i had to run fsck. It seemed to fix a lot
> of things (like 100 or more) Then I rebooted and when I logged in it said "no
> /root directory" and bash$ came up. I tried to start x but it said couldn't find
> root directory. So trying to be creative I did "mkdir /root" that allowed me
> into X. All of my programs are still there but they are acting as if I am
> running them for the first time...can someone explain what happened or even better
> how to fix it??
>
>
> thanks
> Rob
>
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