basically i removed the following packages guile-1.8 (and accidently guile-1.6.7) and also icu (3.4 i think a tgz slackware package) and quasar-1.4.7 from source with a package created from checkinstall and now cannot login as a normal user or root. (after entering the password i get the message that says password is not recognised or invalid user, not sure what it exactly says in console mode).

any ideas?

thanks in advance

LOL I deleted shadow one time so I know your feeling

Boot the Slackware installer CD (disc 1) or a linux live CD and chroot into your system. Then do pkgtool and add what you need.

i think it may be guile-1.6.* as the rest were installed by me. But is there any other package that i should re-install?

thanks in advance

You can look in /var/adm/removed_packages for a list of what you removed, *if* you used pkgtool. If you just deleted stuff you're on your own.

Just try one at a time if you think you know what it is. You'll probably be fine quickly.

thanks... just removed packages via removepkg... so will look in the removepkg log to see what else was removed today...

the reason that i seem to not be able to login is due to there being no users on the system including root! all the directories are there including the /root and /home/mques.

is there a reason why this has happened, has some file relating the passwords and users been deleted? and if it has do you know what the name of this file(s) are?

thank you.

The file that holds the users and their info is /etc/passwd, the groups is /etc/groups, and passwords is /etc/shadow.


Sounds like you don't have one or more of these files.

yeah you are right...

it looks like when quasar-1.4.7_GPL-i386-1 was removed it had removed passwd groups and shadow but there are these files in /etc with a 'bak' extention ie passwd.bak and when i type 'cat passwd.bak | grep mques' mques shows up so it looks like these were backed up when the original was removed.

so i'll chroot and copy these files to there original name and see what happens...

What on earth is quasar? :)

Certainly nothing that comes with Slack - where did you get it from?


Cheers,
Tink

ah... quasar is an accountancy package... could not get gnucash to work so was playing around with kmymoney and then tried this quasar thing, never could get it to work so removed it...

well the good news is i can log in as my self now after copying passwd.bak as passwd and so on... and things seem to work as normal except for a few annoying issues...

for eg: $whomai : cannot find name for user ID 505 (my regular users UID)

and also in xfce, on the xfce panel righ click doesnt bring up the right click options anymore and also the xfce panel has gone back to its default view with the default icons and so on... and cannot access the goodies...

any ideas of what should be done to get things as was before?

thanks in advance...

Don't expect quasar to show up in slack-current anytime soon.

Another hint for removepkg is the -warn option. That displays what's getting removed but no action is performed.

well it looks like i've buggered the system... so will have to re-install slack or something else... maybe i'll try something non-slack this time to see what it is like... suse, ubuntu or gentoo?