SOS!!! My gentoo gets completly mad!

alexou2643

Well first,
Happy and Merry Christmas to all/Joyeux Noel à tous le monde!

Ok i have the worst problem i've ever had on my gentoo box.
The thing is that some time ago i moved my /var directory on another partition by copying it, but unfortunarely i forgot to use the preserve option of cp.
Anyway, i had already experimented some problems due to this bad manipulation, especially with mysql, and i had already asked for some help...
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=24660&highlight=

Anyway, today, i finally tried to make work my network again, but as soon as i connected my second gentoo box on my gentoo server, my gentoo server froze!!! So i had to reboot with a little reset, and there after logging in GDM, my gnome desktop didn't start!!!
So i thought there was maybe a problem with my named service or the dhcp service, so i savecd my configurations files for these two services, and then i deleted all was involved with that...
/etc/bind
/etc/dhcp
/var/bind
/var/lib/dhcp

emerge -C bind
emerge -C dhcp
rc-update del named
rc-update del dhcp

And then i rebooted.
Then in a failsafe term session, i reinstalled the whole thing, bind and dhcp and i reconfigured the whole thing to make the named and dhcp work again.
I rebooted, and unfortunately my gnome-desktop still doesn't load and start.
I really don't know what happens here...
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Le gentoo, c'est bien beau...surtout avec un chtit gnome.

c_kuzmanic · Posted: Wed Dec 25, 2002 9:14 am Post subject:

Hmm, well I think you pretty much narrowed your problems already down to a point: You copied /var without preserving user/permissions . Since mysql acesses that directory, you naturally had problems with it. Chances are that gnome has the same problem. I'm not sure which files in /var gnome writes/reads to since I don't use gnome, but what you can do is to try '$emerge -e gnome' which will re-emerge gnome with all its dependencies, thus hopefully restoring everything in the afflicted /var partition.

c_kuzmanic · Posted: Wed Dec 25, 2002 9:24 am Post subject:

Ok, I checked one of my other boxes which has gnome, and the only directory I saw which seemed immediately gnome-related was /var/lib/gdm, for the gnome-display-manager:

drwxr-x--- gdm gdm

This directory should be owned by user gdm, group gdm . Since you propably already had prob's with /var/run/mysql, you should maybe check that directory too.