[SOLVED] No Arch in BIOS after replacing home with backup home

Arch4GoodieLike · 10-01-2020, 03:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by colorpurple21859

Code:

su -
password: <root password>
umount /dev/sda1
rm -r /boot/*
exit
exit

when i did

Code:

su

and entered my password, i got

Code:

 su: Authentication service cannot retrieve authentication info

then out of curiousity i did

Code:

sudo

and got

Code:

sudo: /usr/bin/sudo must be owned by uid 0 and have setuid bit set

colorpurple21859 · 10-01-2020, 03:19 PM

su -
Or go to a tty console and log in as root

Arch4GoodieLike · 10-01-2020, 03:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by colorpurple21859

su -
Or go to a tty console and log in as root

got the same result.
and as sidenote, when i got my whole device working yesterday, i only logged in and clicked on a file to see if it works, this was it and i havent touched the device again since then.

colorpurple21859 · 10-01-2020, 06:27 PM

run

Code:

ls -l /etc

just about all the files should be root

Arch4GoodieLike · 10-02-2020, 01:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by colorpurple21859

run

Code:

ls -l /etc

just about all the files should be root

true, everthing is in root. I also noticed once i do the shortcut for Lock-screen which is META+L i cant unlock anymore since it would say my pw is wrong, so in order to login i have to avoid META+L or restart the device but i'm sure it has to do with the authetication info error.

colorpurple21859 · 10-02-2020, 05:55 AM

I don't know the answer to this one. On second thought, I suspect that not all files were backed up due to running rsync as user instead of root. Did a test in a vm and yes not all files in /etc /var were backed up due to permission prblems plus a few symlinks. Looks like you will need to do a complete reinstall. Maybe starting a new thread with the details someone might know how to fix without reinstalling.

Tonus · 10-02-2020, 02:37 PM

Are you sure you've got the good password and that it really is what u type ? Could be caps lock, azerty or special char thing…

Arch4GoodieLike · 10-02-2020, 03:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tonus

Are you sure you've got the good password and that it really is what u type ? Could be caps lock, azerty or special char thing…

https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ng-4175683072/