Hi all below is the original post...
I would like to thank H. Blakely Willford, Dr. Tom Blinn, Matthew
Caltrop,
Dejan Muhamedagic and everyone else that responded to my cry for help.
The entire problem was caused by my deleting a user called NOBODY. It
seems
this account is actually SOMEBODY because it wiped my system clean with
the exception
of some directories.
The recommendations were:
RE-INSTALL THE FIRMWARE, this actually was not the problem, but while
investigating
the problem I was able to solve another problem on the same system. It
had to do with an EISA
configuration error I couldn't pin point.
KISS MY BUTT GOODBYE, I actually contemplated this one, but realised
it would not solve the
problem....LOL
MOUNT THE UNIX-INSTALL CD AND RE-CREATE THE USER ACCOUNT FOR NOBODY,
good one and would have
worked had I not selected the DELETE HOME DIRECTORY. The home
directory for NOBODY is the root.
MOUNT THE UNIX-INSTALL CD, RE-INSTALL UNIX AND START OVER, just about
what I had to do, also
similar tooth kiss my butt goodbye. :)
DO A RESTORE FROM YOUR BACKUPS, well seeing as I was new to the UNIX
environment and didn't know
how to install the tape backup device I didn't so there was no
backup....I have now learned how to install the tape
device and other devices and I have 3 count them 3 backups...:)
MATTHEW, was kind enough to explain that no I was not as moronic as I
thought I was:
"My guess is that you have done exactly what I did about a year and a
half ago:
deleted a user ("nobody") whose home directory is /.
How did you delete the user? Did you use the program "removeuser"? If
so, it
would have prompted you to remove the user's home directory. If you
answered
yes, you will have deleted all files on the system. Was I mad when I
did it?
Bloody oath. There is no way you should be allowed to so such a thing
on a
modern, supposedly industrial-strength operating system - but it's
probably
there because it always has been."
H. Blakely Willford, was kind enough to walk me through the procedures
for re-installing the system
and getting my data back. To note he kept referring me to specific
pages within the Digital Manuals.
Sorry this is taking so long to summarise.:)
Finally,
I installed Digital UNIX on another disk, installed the tape backup
device, made sure it worked,
mounted all the other disks, did 2 dumps to tape, mounted old UNIX disk
and did cp over of missing data and
files, had to manually go in and insert missing parameters, etc, etc.
I am still cleaning up my system, but
I should be done by COB.
Once more thanks to one and all for your help.
> Hi all it seem that I have more serious problem than full system.
>
> SYSTEM is an Alpha 2100 series UNIX system (OSF)
>
> Once more we had a power outage this morning. The system booted
fine,
> but
> it kept giving me full system error messages. When I cleaned the
> system(one of my
> users had dumped a lot of data off the root) I also deleted a user
> account and something called
> "nobody".
>
> The system then went crazy and I had to turn it off and turn it back
on
> (reboot). Well to make a
> long story short the system will not boot.
>
> I can get it to the prompt that looks like: "00P>"
>
> and set the following parameter:
> set boot_osflags aki
>
> enter the following command:
> boot
> I receive the following messages:
> (boot dka0.0.0.1.o is a valid boot block)
> reading 16 blocks from dka0.0.0.1.0
> bootstrap code read in
> base0000, image_start=0,image bytes00
> initializing HWRPB at 2000
> initializing page tables at if2000
> initializing machine state
> setting affinity to the primary CPU
> jumping to bootstrap
>
> And the system just hangs there.
>
> Can anyone help me?
>
> Andre'
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Received on Wed Mar 12 1997 - 18:41:39 NZDT