On Sun, 2025-11-09 at 22:48 -0500, Terry Hurlbut wrote: > When I told everyone where the system was getting stuck, everyone > seemed to be saying the system didn't lend itself to a simple repair. > Now I have a system that boots but can't do anything, not even to > install applications or launch shortcuts. Is this not a problem for > anyone on this list to advise on?
You're probably in that no-man's land where other people haven't faced the same situation that you're in. Or it's such a nightmare to fix from that point, and try to explain to someone else how to do it, that there's easier ways to go about it. Since you said your data is on a separate drive than your system, you ought to be in the easy position where you can give up trying to repair your borked system and simply install the OS a new (on your system drive). Start over again. If you're doing your install from a live disc, what you get when you've finished installing it should be the same applications as are on the live disc. From there, you can add back your links to your data, and any other applications you want. I can't imagine how you ended up with an install with *no* applications. For what it's worth, I don't use KDE either (nor Gnome), so I can't give specific advice on fixing KDE gone wonky. But when it comes to setting up a new account with the same details as a previous install, it's the user ID number that marries your account with your data, not the user name. You have to set up the new account to have the same numerical ID. If you're not sure what UID you had, "ls -n" will show the numerical IDs of the user and group of the owner of some files. Find some of your old files and list them. For example: $ ls -n total 28 -rw-rw-r--. 1 1004 1000 9783 Nov 6 11:48 cheat-sheet.shtml -rw-rw-r--. 1 1004 1000 12898 Nov 7 14:48 default.shtml That shows some files owned by user 1004 in group 1000. You'd set up a new user account that matched. If you were the only user, most likely it's 1000 and 1000. Unless you'd been doing installs over the top for many many years, back then user IDs started from 500. Back in the past when I've done something similar (for setting up matching accounts across different PCs in a LAN) the user account configurator let you specify numerical IDs during the creation (so long as you didn't try to duplicate someone else's account details). On later releases (I'm using Mate) I found it didn't have that option, I had to create dummy accounts until I got to the UID number I wanted to use. I'm betting KDE isn't that stupidly restricted. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.119.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jun 4 14:43:51 UTC 2024 x86_64 (yes, this is the output from uname for this PC when I posted) Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
