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

Arch4GoodieLike · 09-26-2020, 12:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Tonus

I would fallback to tty, delete and recreate user (to avoid any further problems !) with it's attributes including home folder. Then login and copy.

means i have to use ArchISO then mnt the internal disk, remove user, create new user? what do you mean with with it's attributes including home folder.removing them?

Then login and copy what do you mean by login and copy?also done via ArchISO i guess? copy paste of ArchBackup into the internal disk?

colorpurple21859 · 09-26-2020, 12:13 PM

Another thought, sometimes deleting configuration files in home folder will do the trick, so maybe after copying your user folder over delete all .* files and sub-files in the user folder

Arch4GoodieLike · 09-26-2020, 12:19 PM

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Originally Posted by colorpurple21859

Another thought, sometimes deleting configuration files in home folder will do the trick, so maybe after copying your user folder over delete all .* files and sub-files in the user folder

this is after i would have done the thing Tonus said?. how to do that? sorry but i got pretty frustrated because i remember last time i made a mistake on the Arch, i just copied the home folder and that was it...no extra steps were needed.

Tonus · 09-26-2020, 12:59 PM

From tty means from the console that launch the graphical login manager. Usually found with Ctrl+alt+f1 or 2
There, login as root, remove the user and re-create it.
You will have a clean user wich will be able to log.
Then log with this empty user and copy backup

Arch4GoodieLike · 09-26-2020, 01:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tonus

From tty means from the console that launch the graphical login manager. Usually found with Ctrl+alt+f1 or 2
There, login as root, remove the user and re-create it.
You will have a clean user wich will be able to log.
Then log with this empty user and copy backup

i tried

Code:

userdel -r myusername

and i got

Code:

userdel: user myusername is curecntly used by process 473

shall i create a new user first?

colorpurple21859 · 09-26-2020, 05:01 PM

Code:

userdel: user myusername is curecntly used by process 473

does this mean your able to login with your username in a tty console? If your able to login with your usrname in a tty, can you write files to the user home directory?

Arch4GoodieLike · 09-27-2020, 01:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by colorpurple21859

Code:

userdel: user myusername is curecntly used by process 473

does this mean your able to login with your username in a tty console?

i guess so since tty said "login" then i had to write the name and pw for it.

Quote:

Originally Posted by colorpurple21859

If your able to login with your usrname in a tty, can you write files to the user home directory?

how could i test that?

Tonus · 09-27-2020, 02:28 AM

Code:

ls -al > write-test.txt

While in your home dir.

If it doesn't throw an error, you could share the content (via pastebin for instance)

Arch4GoodieLike · 09-28-2020, 02:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tonus

Code:

ls -al > write-test.txt

While in your home dir.

If it doesn't throw an error, you could share the content (via pastebin for instance)

i'm terribly sorry for the late reply, i had a quite busy day yesterday.
https://ibb.co/52MLCJZ

colorpurple21859 · 09-28-2020, 06:05 AM

login into a tty as root

Code:

chown -hR <user name> /home/<usr directory>

try and log in to your desktop. If it doesn't work. reboot and then try it. What this does is change owner of your home directory back to your user.

Arch4GoodieLike · 09-28-2020, 06:14 AM

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Originally Posted by colorpurple21859

login into a tty as root

Code:

chown -hR <user name> /home/<usr directory>

try and log in to your desktop. What this does is change owner of your home directory back to your user.

it worked! what now?

colorpurple21859 · 09-28-2020, 06:40 AM

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it worked! what now?

Great

IF everything is working, mark the thread solved in thread tools.

Arch4GoodieLike · 09-28-2020, 06:45 AM

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Originally Posted by colorpurple21859

Great

IF everything is working, mark the thread solved in thread tools.

well the thing is it looks like the same as before cp my /home because its empty.

so if i want to replace /home, i do

Code:

fdisk -l
# make directory for /mnt/sda3
mkdir /mnt/sda3

# create mountpoint for /dev/sda3 /mnt/sda3
mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/sda3

# make directory for /mnt/sdc
mkdir /mnt/sdc

#make encrypted disk accessable
cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdc ArchBackup

# create mountpoint for /dev/mapper/ArchBackup /mnt/sdc
mount /dev/mapper/ArchBackup /mnt/sdc

# copy paste backup of home to sda1 and replace /home in destination
cp -ax /mnt/sdc /mnt/sda3/home/

or have i to change something in the "code text" ?

Tonus · 09-28-2020, 08:00 AM

Best is to copy your files while not using them. That's why you will usually be advised to copy the files while booted in a live OS.

What are you trying to achieve now ? Restore a backup ?
If none of the mentionned disks are actually in use you're good to go. If sda3 is the home partition, do not do that part where you're creating a mount point for it

Arch4GoodieLike · 09-28-2020, 08:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tonus

Best is to copy your files while not using them. That's why you will usually be advised to copy the files while booted in a live OS.

What are you trying to achieve now ? Restore a backup ?
If none of the mentionned disks are actually in use you're good to go. If sda3 is the home partition, do not do that part where you're creating a mount point for it

sda3 is the internal disk partition Linux filesystem.i just want to replace internal /home with the backup /home folder.

how would the whole process look to make it work?