user directory missing after installing updates
by oldFordguy from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5MQ8Z)
Hello all,
I have a re-purposed PC that I'm using for a home server. I am running it headless, but it has a full install of Slackware 14.2 on it with KDE. A few days ago I installed some updates on it, which included a kernel update. The updates seemed to complete ok, but once I rebooted, my user directory appears to be missing. I can still log in with my user account, and I haven't noticed any other problems.
Here's the commands that I used to run the updates;
# slackpkg update
# slackpkg install-new
# slackpkg upgrade-all
After I rebooted and realized that there was a problem I looked at the update notes and saw that I was supposed to upgrade my initrd and run lilo as root.
http://www.slackware.com/security/vi...ecurity.837633
I then attempted to upgrade the initrd, but I've never done that before so I'm not sure that I did it right. After a couple of attempts, I followed the instructions in README.initrd, and used the command below, and it looked like it completed properly. I got several messages about installing kernel modules, or something like that.
mkinitrd -c -k 4.4.276 -m ext3
I also tried pointing lilo to different kernels, huge, generic, etc, but no change.
Also, in case it is relevant, at the time I installed the updates my system was low on available memory.
I thought about simply using mkdir to recreate the directory, but I'm not sure that's the right approach.
Thoughts?
I have a re-purposed PC that I'm using for a home server. I am running it headless, but it has a full install of Slackware 14.2 on it with KDE. A few days ago I installed some updates on it, which included a kernel update. The updates seemed to complete ok, but once I rebooted, my user directory appears to be missing. I can still log in with my user account, and I haven't noticed any other problems.
Here's the commands that I used to run the updates;
# slackpkg update
# slackpkg install-new
# slackpkg upgrade-all
After I rebooted and realized that there was a problem I looked at the update notes and saw that I was supposed to upgrade my initrd and run lilo as root.
http://www.slackware.com/security/vi...ecurity.837633
I then attempted to upgrade the initrd, but I've never done that before so I'm not sure that I did it right. After a couple of attempts, I followed the instructions in README.initrd, and used the command below, and it looked like it completed properly. I got several messages about installing kernel modules, or something like that.
mkinitrd -c -k 4.4.276 -m ext3
I also tried pointing lilo to different kernels, huge, generic, etc, but no change.
Also, in case it is relevant, at the time I installed the updates my system was low on available memory.
I thought about simply using mkdir to recreate the directory, but I'm not sure that's the right approach.
Thoughts?