[PLUG] system won't complete bring up, now what?

[Jim Garrison]

On 9/3/2015 10:55 AM, logical american wrote:
> To all:
> 
> I accidentally erased part of the /usr partition on an openSUSE v13.2 
[snip]
> 2. Is there any way to dump or log?  I cannot bring up a recovery 
> console yet at this point of the boot-up process. I suppose one could 
> boot up Knoppix and then take a look at the messages in the /var/log area?

Have you tried this yet?

Other possibilities:

* How did you backup and restore? You may have not restored
  permissions correctly.

* Is SELinux enabled?  That could have an effect as well

* Can you get to an alternate console (Ctrl-Alt-F2 through F5 on
  Redhat derivatives, not sure what it is on Suse)?


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