I made a shit :-(

[aze]

I deleted some folers of my /home/myfolder and now I cant see my desktop icons and cant run nautilus. :D LoL

How do I restore gnome desktop? :(

[Guest anon]

You can open the gnome apps menu, find the program you want, click on the app and hold the mouse button down, then drag onto desktop to create shortcut. There are other ways as well.

Another way, depending on how much you have lost, is to just create a new user, then delete old user.

[aze]

thank you! I'll try recreate de user

but if delete the user his folder name will be deleted?

[Guest anon]

If you decide to create a new user then after you have done that, as root (su) move what you want into the new users directory BEFORE deleting the old user

[aze]

Ok!

How do I create a new user using console?

[aze]

I tried to use Userdrake

But it said that i cannot create the new user because there is a group with the same name name (even I deleted that user).

thank you!

[aze]

I know How to fix it:

The newbie way: format partitions and re-install mdk :(

I just re-installed mandrake last night. :D

See you guys. 8)

[MottS]

-To remove a user using a console: userdel -r username

 

[root@localhost gd]# userdel -r test

 

-To add a user using a console (2 steps)

Step 1 -> Add a user : adduser username

Step 2 -> Give a password to the user : passwd username

 

[root@localhost gd]# adduser test

[root@localhost gd]# passwd test

Changing password for user test.

New UNIX password: 

Retype new UNIX password: 

passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.

 

Hope this help

 

MOttS

[bvc]

man adduser

 

Can't you just rename (mv) your user dir and reboot (or restart X)? The worst that could happen would be that you'd have to login as root and rename (mv) it back?

 

as root

mv /home/your_name /home/your_new_name

[Cannonfodder]

All you had to do was..

 

0. Log in as root.

1. Delete the user.

2. Locate the group named after the user and delete that as well.

3. Delete the user's folder.

4. Create the user

 

You can use userdrake for the entire process. Deleting your entire system was not the way to go... (unless you had other reasons on your mind :) )

[aze]

Thank you!

next time if it happen I'll do this!

[theYinYeti]

If you do something bad with your gnome-desktop, and you want to re-initialize your gnome config from the start, without deleting the whole user, just do that in a terminal window:

cd $HOME

rm -rf .gnome*

 

Yves.

[aze]

thank you!

Was something like that I was looking for!

Thank you guys!