recovery?

[billt79]

Hi,
Not sure of this is the correct place but i didnt see a better one. the other day I tried to install a piece of software using a script, and i ran it as root but forgot to set a prefix, so it installed straight to the root drive, this caused a problem as it overwrote the bin folder, nothing else. i had an old copy of it on a backup, so i copied it over, and i get to kdm, and the mouse and keyboard don't work. If i boot into recovery and run startx as root, then it loads an xserver but i get notifications saying the keyboard and touchpad configurations aren't supported and the plasma deskop crashes. Is there a way to fix this, as i have done a lot to that install and it would be a massive faff redoing it all.

cheers, Bill.

[Gerd50]

Try this, boot the recovery mode and use the command

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telinit 5

you should have a working system now. Open the terminal and put in

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ls -l /etc/rc*.d/*udev*

if you get something like this

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lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19  4. Jul 23:27 /etc/rc0.d/K01udev-mtab -> ../init.d/udev-mtab
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 29. Jun 21:39 /etc/rc0.d/K02udev -> ../init.d/udev
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19  4. Jul 23:27 /etc/rc1.d/K01udev-mtab -> ../init.d/udev-mtab
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 29. Jun 21:39 /etc/rc1.d/K02udev -> ../init.d/udev
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 23. Aug 22:06 /etc/rc2.d/K01udev-mtab -> ../init.d/udev-mtab
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 13. Sep 22:28 /etc/rc2.d/S02udev -> ../init.d/udev
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19  4. Jul 23:27 /etc/rc3.d/K01udev-mtab -> ../init.d/udev-mtab
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 29. Jun 21:39 /etc/rc3.d/K02udev -> ../init.d/udev
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19  4. Jul 23:27 /etc/rc4.d/K01udev-mtab -> ../init.d/udev-mtab
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 29. Jun 21:39 /etc/rc4.d/K02udev -> ../init.d/udev
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 20. Sep 21:47 /etc/rc5.d/S02udev -> ../init.d/udev
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 20. Sep 23:33 /etc/rc5.d/S13udev-mtab -> ../init.d/udev-mtab
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19  4. Jul 23:27 /etc/rc6.d/K01udev-mtab -> ../init.d/udev-mtab
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 29. Jun 21:39 /etc/rc6.d/K02udev -> ../init.d/udev
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 24. Feb 2010  /etc/rcS.d/S02udev -> ../init.d/udev
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 19 25. Feb 2010  /etc/rcS.d/S13udev-mtab -> ../init.d/udev-mtab

delete all the udev links from rc0.d to rc6.d. Don't touch rcS.d, it's needed as it is.

[billt79]

hi,

Ran the commands below, the telinit 5 command, and the xserver started and went to kdm like normal but the keyboard and touchpad still didnt work, so i ran the 2nd command and it only listed symlinks in rcs.d, an as they are needed i didnt fiddle with them. I had to run that command in the recovery terminal because i still cant use the xserver, any other ideas?

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telinit 5
ls -l /etc/rc*.d/*udev*

Cheers, Bill.

[Gerd50]

Sorry, no. The only reason i know for tochpad/mouse & keyboard not working is the rc0 - rc6 udev stuff.

[billt79]

Any packages i could reinstall?, im going to boot into it now and re install the xserver and xorg stuff see if that helps, providing i can connect it to the ethernet from the recovery terminal =p

[billt79]

Well i reinstalled some stuff, and got to my desktop but still no mouse or keypad, although i got a segmentation error on something, not sure if that has anything to do with it?

EDIT: cant be udev i tried a usb mouse, and i have reinstalled just about everything to do with any inputs, guess i have got to reinstall