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    [–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    I don't know how I fixed it, but KDE Plasma 5.whatever on MX was acting up. It would let me login but if I couldn't do much else. Wouldn't respond to my clicks or anything. Thankfully I could open Yakuake and install a different desktop environment. Then, one day while I was backing up files to do a reinstall, it started working again. I could use Plasma without issues. I have no clue what fixed it, though.

    It also came with a non-issue of now my laptop won't auto turn on every time I open it up, but I'll take that over having to reinstall and set things back up.

    [–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Rescuing home partition from ZFS, actually that doesn't really count since I did have to reinstall (was no longer booting), but recovering the Home partition from ZFS and to the other ext4 drive was much harder than it should've been and that's why I would never recommend people use ZFS.

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    [–] 0x30507DE@lemmy.today 1 points 1 year ago

    Accidentally put grub on the wrong partition on the device, which it was not happy with. Was able to copy some files over, manually boot the OS, and reconfigure grub to be in the right partition, took me about 2 hours? Then I did it again on a different machine, and speedran it lol

    [–] Nithanim@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Jumping from the default kernel with zfs to the xanmod kernel using a manually compiled version of zfs. I don't rememeber a whole lot but it was quite... interesting. Next would be a suddenly vanished efi partition and my f* mainboard refusing to boot ZBM.

    Bonus: my currently still unfixed problem is a very weird freezing/stuttering of the whole OS and the only (useless) "lead" I have is workqueue: fill_page_cache_func hogged CPU for >10000us 4 times, consider switching to WQ_UNBOUND

    Fast data transmission via TCP over a lossy link.

    [–] dlok@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I feel seen here, I was building a Ubuntu server and messed up the firewall settings not being able to get an internet connection, hours of trying to get back to where I was I gave up and plan to just start from scratch next time.

    Is there a way of taking system snapshots with Linux?

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    [–] bruhbeans@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

    I recently managed to recover from a corrupted libstdc .so. Turns out I shouldn't have bothered because the it was a Pi and, of course, the SD card had shit the bed, but I was pretty happy with myself for like 30 minutes.

    [–] prime_number_314159@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I managed a CentOS system where someone accidentally deleted everything from /usr, so no lib64, and no bin. I didn't have a way to get proper files at the time, so I hooked the drive up to my Arch system, made sure glibc matched, and copied yum and other tools from Arch.

    Booted the system, reinstalled a whole lot of yum packages, and... the thing still worked.

    That's almost equivalent to a reinstall, though. As a broke college student, I had a laptop with a loose drive, that would fall out very easily. I set it up to load a few crucial things into a ramdisk at boot, so that I could browse the web and take notes even if the drive was disconnected, and it would still load images and things. I could pull the cover off and push the drive back in place to save files, but doing that every time I had class got really tiring, so I wanted it to run a little like a live system.

    [–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

    I have taken a drive with filesystem issues, mounted on a different machine and either backup data I wanted to keep or copy files to make the original machine runnable.

    [–] megabat@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

    Hmm I have come up with a bunch of neat solutions over the years. Where to start?

    One time I broke the sudoers file on a distro without a root account, thoroughly locking myself out. I used docker -v /:/chroot to get myself root access to my root filesystem where I fixed the sudoers file. Protip always use visudo

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