[Solved]I accidentally erased my home partition.

The name says it all. Long story short, I made an stupid error in Gparted and ended up with a completely blank home partition. When I boot up, I get the normal Grub prompt, followed by the login prompt. I can successfully login to my user account, but when I try to start x, I get a black screen. If I try to start my window manager,enlightenment, with enlightenment_start, I get an error
Enlightenment cannot initialize Ecore_X!
And then it shuts down. Argh!
Last edited by AlecB (2013-05-30 02:38:17)

Your $HOME has nothing to do with how your system runs, other than dole out required configurations for your specific user. If you think that creating a directory is harder than reinstalling the system, then by all means, reinstall. But you will not learn a damn thing from simply reinstalling the system.
Just make your $HOME, set the right permissions and ownership, and then start to rebuild what you need. I get the impression that your inability to go straight into a graphical environment implies an inability to boot. This is not the case.
Edit: In hindsight, this information was indeed something that you could have very easily figured out yourself with even the slightest bit of effort. I think that we really have hit help vampirism.
Last edited by WonderWoofy (2013-05-29 18:16:51)

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I will give it try tomorrow and inform you about the outcome. I will use the guide by anarxc http://sysphere.org/~anrxc/j/articles/e … index.html
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