[Linux] Repairing an Ubuntu Installation

[Steven Benmosh]

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For some reason, either another drive on his way to greener pasture, or just
bad luck (and massive amounts of writing and reading to the HD), I had some
file system damage to the hard drive. I noticed that the usual way - write
errors (permission errors upon save) and application malfunctions (ftp
server), rebooted, ran a manual fsck and rebooted again. I am now back in X,
but there is a problem - some of the lost files contained configuration
information, and now my gnome desktop is not working properly.

So here is the question:

Is there a way to 'repair' a damaged desktop environment, either through
some repair functionality of Ubuntu 8.04, or by reinstalling, without losing
personal data, or with a minimal loss?

Thanks,

Z.

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<div dir="ltr">For some reason, either another drive on his way to greener pasture, or just bad luck (and massive amounts of writing and reading to the HD), I had some file system damage to the hard drive. I noticed that the usual way - write errors (permission errors upon save) and application malfunctions (ftp server), rebooted, ran a manual fsck and rebooted again. I am now back in X, but there is a problem - some of the lost files contained configuration information, and now my gnome desktop is not working properly.<br>
<br>So here is the question:<br><br>Is there a way to &#39;repair&#39; a damaged desktop environment, either through some repair functionality of Ubuntu 8.04, or by reinstalling, without losing personal data, or with a minimal loss?<br>
<br>Thanks,<br><br>Z.<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Check out my web site - <a href="http://www.words2u.net">www.words2u.net</a><br>
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