Emerge --update system deletes user

Chemtux

Hi, big problem.
Today I did a 'emerge --update system', which re-installed the kernel sources the base??? and sysvinit. After this emerge it deleted the user directory from which I used 'su' to do the emerge. Upon reboot I had no root-password set, so I had to give a new root-password and I had to add a new user. In short I lost all my important stuff in my user directory.
Can somebody explain and maybe help getting my files back.
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klieber · Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2002 6:26 pm Post subject:

Sounds like you had your /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files overwritten. Type "emerge --help config" from the command line to learn more about config file protection and how to use it to protect critical system files.

--kurt
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Guest · Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2002 7:26 pm Post subject:

Yep, all sorts of files were overwritten in /etc
I think I can recommend everybody not to use the CONFIG_PROTECT="" option. The main reason I lost my user dir, was for the stupid reason that my fstab wasn't correct and therefor my /home wasn't mounted.

I hope someone will learn from my mistake