How to restore fedora when a terminal command removed everything and resulted in black screen
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I was using fedora 28 with cinnamon desktop environment. It also had gnome desktop environment.
I ran a command something along the lines of sudo dnf remove gnome* which remove everything there was along with the terminal as the default was gnome-terminal.
Now I can see an empty grey screen because I had auto-login enabled. I had only user account on the system.
How can I restore the removed packages and get the system back without losing the data?
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I was using fedora 28 with cinnamon desktop environment. It also had gnome desktop environment.
I ran a command something along the lines of sudo dnf remove gnome* which remove everything there was along with the terminal as the default was gnome-terminal.
Now I can see an empty grey screen because I had auto-login enabled. I had only user account on the system.
How can I restore the removed packages and get the system back without losing the data?
fedora gnome cinnamon
edited Sep 22 at 22:17
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I was using fedora 28 with cinnamon desktop environment. It also had gnome desktop environment.
I ran a command something along the lines of sudo dnf remove gnome* which remove everything there was along with the terminal as the default was gnome-terminal.
Now I can see an empty grey screen because I had auto-login enabled. I had only user account on the system.
How can I restore the removed packages and get the system back without losing the data?
fedora gnome cinnamon
edited Sep 22 at 22:17
roaima
40.8k547111
asked Sep 22 at 21:38
Doc
1092
I was using fedora 28 with cinnamon desktop environment. It also had gnome desktop environment.
I ran a command something along the lines of sudo dnf remove gnome* which remove everything there was along with the terminal as the default was gnome-terminal.
Now I can see an empty grey screen because I had auto-login enabled. I had only user account on the system.
How can I restore the removed packages and get the system back without losing the data?
fedora gnome cinnamon
fedora gnome cinnamon
edited Sep 22 at 22:17
roaima
40.8k547111
asked Sep 22 at 21:38
Doc
1092
edited Sep 22 at 22:17
roaima
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asked Sep 22 at 21:38
Doc
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edited Sep 22 at 22:17
roaima
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edited Sep 22 at 22:17
roaima
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edited Sep 22 at 22:17
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The "empty grey screen" is probably the default background of an empty X11 server without a desktop environment running.
Press Ctrl+Alt+F1 to switch to a text-based login prompt.
Log in, enter cd /var/log to move into /var/log directory, and then enter less dnf.log. If it does not allow you to read the file, use sudo less dnf.log instead.
Hopefully, the tail end of this log file will list the names of all the packages you mistakenly removed. Make a note of all of them: the list may include some packages that are not named like "gnome*", as they might have been removed because they depend on one or more of the "gnome*" packages.
Use commands like sudo dnf install <package name> <package name> <package name...> to re-install the removed packages. Once all the mistakenly removed packages have been re-installed, reboot the system with sudo shutdown -r now. After the reboot, if you managed to reinstall all the packages you removed, the system should be as it was before the mistake.
Unless you stored your data files somewhere you shouldn't, removing any packages should always leave user files and configuration files in place. Reinstalling the same packages should automatically use any existing configuration files for them, if available.
answered Sep 22 at 22:07
telcoM
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i can open terminal using fedora rescue but installing cinnamon or any desktop environment from there gives me an error which says 'can't connect to fedora repo' or something similar
– Doc
Sep 22 at 22:11
i have fedora 28 iso file. will it be any useful?
– Doc
Sep 22 at 22:13
Doc this isn't Rescue mode. Start your machine normally and then follow the instructions in this answer.
– roaima
Sep 22 at 22:16
I have reinstalled all the packages but still i have the grey screen
– Doc
Sep 22 at 23:25
i am getting a backup of data and will format the drive. Any other folder that may contain important data other than /home/droid/ which I need to backup?
– Doc
Sep 23 at 0:35
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dnf has a transaction history and rollback routines to revert to and/or undo operations.
Issue sudo dnf history to get a list of transactions, find the transaction that borked the system, then issue either sudo dnf history undo <BorkingTransactionNumber> or sudo dnf history rollback <BorkingTransactionNumber - 1> where <BorkingTransactionNumber> is the number of the transaction that broke your system.
See man dnf for more information on the history function and other options.
answered Sep 25 at 16:14
Mioriin
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i tried reinstalling all the packages as described by @telcoM which didn't work out well. Now I have another problem askubuntu.com/questions/1078691/… to solve.
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Sep 26 at 18:49
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2 Answers
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The "empty grey screen" is probably the default background of an empty X11 server without a desktop environment running.
Press Ctrl+Alt+F1 to switch to a text-based login prompt.
Log in, enter cd /var/log to move into /var/log directory, and then enter less dnf.log. If it does not allow you to read the file, use sudo less dnf.log instead.
Hopefully, the tail end of this log file will list the names of all the packages you mistakenly removed. Make a note of all of them: the list may include some packages that are not named like "gnome*", as they might have been removed because they depend on one or more of the "gnome*" packages.
Use commands like sudo dnf install <package name> <package name> <package name...> to re-install the removed packages. Once all the mistakenly removed packages have been re-installed, reboot the system with sudo shutdown -r now. After the reboot, if you managed to reinstall all the packages you removed, the system should be as it was before the mistake.
Unless you stored your data files somewhere you shouldn't, removing any packages should always leave user files and configuration files in place. Reinstalling the same packages should automatically use any existing configuration files for them, if available.
answered Sep 22 at 22:07
telcoM
12.2k11435
i can open terminal using fedora rescue but installing cinnamon or any desktop environment from there gives me an error which says 'can't connect to fedora repo' or something similar
– Doc
Sep 22 at 22:11
i have fedora 28 iso file. will it be any useful?
– Doc
Sep 22 at 22:13
Doc this isn't Rescue mode. Start your machine normally and then follow the instructions in this answer.
– roaima
Sep 22 at 22:16
I have reinstalled all the packages but still i have the grey screen
– Doc
Sep 22 at 23:25
i am getting a backup of data and will format the drive. Any other folder that may contain important data other than /home/droid/ which I need to backup?
– Doc
Sep 23 at 0:35
add a comment |Â
up vote
1
down vote
The "empty grey screen" is probably the default background of an empty X11 server without a desktop environment running.
Press Ctrl+Alt+F1 to switch to a text-based login prompt.
Log in, enter cd /var/log to move into /var/log directory, and then enter less dnf.log. If it does not allow you to read the file, use sudo less dnf.log instead.
Hopefully, the tail end of this log file will list the names of all the packages you mistakenly removed. Make a note of all of them: the list may include some packages that are not named like "gnome*", as they might have been removed because they depend on one or more of the "gnome*" packages.
Use commands like sudo dnf install <package name> <package name> <package name...> to re-install the removed packages. Once all the mistakenly removed packages have been re-installed, reboot the system with sudo shutdown -r now. After the reboot, if you managed to reinstall all the packages you removed, the system should be as it was before the mistake.
Unless you stored your data files somewhere you shouldn't, removing any packages should always leave user files and configuration files in place. Reinstalling the same packages should automatically use any existing configuration files for them, if available.
answered Sep 22 at 22:07
telcoM
12.2k11435
i can open terminal using fedora rescue but installing cinnamon or any desktop environment from there gives me an error which says 'can't connect to fedora repo' or something similar
– Doc
Sep 22 at 22:11
i have fedora 28 iso file. will it be any useful?
– Doc
Sep 22 at 22:13
Doc this isn't Rescue mode. Start your machine normally and then follow the instructions in this answer.
– roaima
Sep 22 at 22:16
I have reinstalled all the packages but still i have the grey screen
– Doc
Sep 22 at 23:25
i am getting a backup of data and will format the drive. Any other folder that may contain important data other than /home/droid/ which I need to backup?
– Doc
Sep 23 at 0:35
add a comment |Â
up vote
1
down vote
up vote
1
down vote
The "empty grey screen" is probably the default background of an empty X11 server without a desktop environment running.
Press Ctrl+Alt+F1 to switch to a text-based login prompt.
Log in, enter cd /var/log to move into /var/log directory, and then enter less dnf.log. If it does not allow you to read the file, use sudo less dnf.log instead.
Hopefully, the tail end of this log file will list the names of all the packages you mistakenly removed. Make a note of all of them: the list may include some packages that are not named like "gnome*", as they might have been removed because they depend on one or more of the "gnome*" packages.
Use commands like sudo dnf install <package name> <package name> <package name...> to re-install the removed packages. Once all the mistakenly removed packages have been re-installed, reboot the system with sudo shutdown -r now. After the reboot, if you managed to reinstall all the packages you removed, the system should be as it was before the mistake.
Unless you stored your data files somewhere you shouldn't, removing any packages should always leave user files and configuration files in place. Reinstalling the same packages should automatically use any existing configuration files for them, if available.
answered Sep 22 at 22:07
telcoM
12.2k11435
The "empty grey screen" is probably the default background of an empty X11 server without a desktop environment running.
Press Ctrl+Alt+F1 to switch to a text-based login prompt.
Log in, enter cd /var/log to move into /var/log directory, and then enter less dnf.log. If it does not allow you to read the file, use sudo less dnf.log instead.
Hopefully, the tail end of this log file will list the names of all the packages you mistakenly removed. Make a note of all of them: the list may include some packages that are not named like "gnome*", as they might have been removed because they depend on one or more of the "gnome*" packages.
Use commands like sudo dnf install <package name> <package name> <package name...> to re-install the removed packages. Once all the mistakenly removed packages have been re-installed, reboot the system with sudo shutdown -r now. After the reboot, if you managed to reinstall all the packages you removed, the system should be as it was before the mistake.
Unless you stored your data files somewhere you shouldn't, removing any packages should always leave user files and configuration files in place. Reinstalling the same packages should automatically use any existing configuration files for them, if available.
answered Sep 22 at 22:07
telcoM
12.2k11435
answered Sep 22 at 22:07
telcoM
12.2k11435
answered Sep 22 at 22:07
telcoM
12.2k11435
answered Sep 22 at 22:07
telcoM
12.2k11435
12.2k11435
i can open terminal using fedora rescue but installing cinnamon or any desktop environment from there gives me an error which says 'can't connect to fedora repo' or something similar
– Doc
Sep 22 at 22:11
i have fedora 28 iso file. will it be any useful?
– Doc
Sep 22 at 22:13
Doc this isn't Rescue mode. Start your machine normally and then follow the instructions in this answer.
– roaima
Sep 22 at 22:16
I have reinstalled all the packages but still i have the grey screen
– Doc
Sep 22 at 23:25
i am getting a backup of data and will format the drive. Any other folder that may contain important data other than /home/droid/ which I need to backup?
– Doc
Sep 23 at 0:35
add a comment |Â
i can open terminal using fedora rescue but installing cinnamon or any desktop environment from there gives me an error which says 'can't connect to fedora repo' or something similar
– Doc
Sep 22 at 22:11
i have fedora 28 iso file. will it be any useful?
– Doc
Sep 22 at 22:13
Doc this isn't Rescue mode. Start your machine normally and then follow the instructions in this answer.
– roaima
Sep 22 at 22:16
I have reinstalled all the packages but still i have the grey screen
– Doc
Sep 22 at 23:25
i am getting a backup of data and will format the drive. Any other folder that may contain important data other than /home/droid/ which I need to backup?
– Doc
Sep 23 at 0:35
i can open terminal using fedora rescue but installing cinnamon or any desktop environment from there gives me an error which says 'can't connect to fedora repo' or something similar
– Doc
Sep 22 at 22:11
i can open terminal using fedora rescue but installing cinnamon or any desktop environment from there gives me an error which says 'can't connect to fedora repo' or something similar
– Doc
Sep 22 at 22:11
i have fedora 28 iso file. will it be any useful?
– Doc
Sep 22 at 22:13
i have fedora 28 iso file. will it be any useful?
– Doc
Sep 22 at 22:13
Doc this isn't Rescue mode. Start your machine normally and then follow the instructions in this answer.
– roaima
Sep 22 at 22:16
Doc this isn't Rescue mode. Start your machine normally and then follow the instructions in this answer.
– roaima
Sep 22 at 22:16
I have reinstalled all the packages but still i have the grey screen
– Doc
Sep 22 at 23:25
I have reinstalled all the packages but still i have the grey screen
– Doc
Sep 22 at 23:25
i am getting a backup of data and will format the drive. Any other folder that may contain important data other than /home/droid/ which I need to backup?
– Doc
Sep 23 at 0:35
i am getting a backup of data and will format the drive. Any other folder that may contain important data other than /home/droid/ which I need to backup?
– Doc
Sep 23 at 0:35
add a comment |Â
up vote
1
down vote
dnf has a transaction history and rollback routines to revert to and/or undo operations.
Issue sudo dnf history to get a list of transactions, find the transaction that borked the system, then issue either sudo dnf history undo <BorkingTransactionNumber> or sudo dnf history rollback <BorkingTransactionNumber - 1> where <BorkingTransactionNumber> is the number of the transaction that broke your system.
See man dnf for more information on the history function and other options.
answered Sep 25 at 16:14
Mioriin
1,664412
i tried reinstalling all the packages as described by @telcoM which didn't work out well. Now I have another problem askubuntu.com/questions/1078691/… to solve.
– Doc
Sep 26 at 18:49
add a comment |Â
up vote
1
down vote
dnf has a transaction history and rollback routines to revert to and/or undo operations.
Issue sudo dnf history to get a list of transactions, find the transaction that borked the system, then issue either sudo dnf history undo <BorkingTransactionNumber> or sudo dnf history rollback <BorkingTransactionNumber - 1> where <BorkingTransactionNumber> is the number of the transaction that broke your system.
See man dnf for more information on the history function and other options.
answered Sep 25 at 16:14
Mioriin
1,664412
i tried reinstalling all the packages as described by @telcoM which didn't work out well. Now I have another problem askubuntu.com/questions/1078691/… to solve.
– Doc
Sep 26 at 18:49
add a comment |Â
up vote
1
down vote
up vote
1
down vote
dnf has a transaction history and rollback routines to revert to and/or undo operations.
Issue sudo dnf history to get a list of transactions, find the transaction that borked the system, then issue either sudo dnf history undo <BorkingTransactionNumber> or sudo dnf history rollback <BorkingTransactionNumber - 1> where <BorkingTransactionNumber> is the number of the transaction that broke your system.
See man dnf for more information on the history function and other options.
answered Sep 25 at 16:14
Mioriin
1,664412
dnf has a transaction history and rollback routines to revert to and/or undo operations.
Issue sudo dnf history to get a list of transactions, find the transaction that borked the system, then issue either sudo dnf history undo <BorkingTransactionNumber> or sudo dnf history rollback <BorkingTransactionNumber - 1> where <BorkingTransactionNumber> is the number of the transaction that broke your system.
See man dnf for more information on the history function and other options.
answered Sep 25 at 16:14
Mioriin
1,664412
answered Sep 25 at 16:14
Mioriin
1,664412
answered Sep 25 at 16:14
Mioriin
1,664412
answered Sep 25 at 16:14
Mioriin
1,664412
1,664412
i tried reinstalling all the packages as described by @telcoM which didn't work out well. Now I have another problem askubuntu.com/questions/1078691/… to solve.
– Doc
Sep 26 at 18:49
add a comment |Â
i tried reinstalling all the packages as described by @telcoM which didn't work out well. Now I have another problem askubuntu.com/questions/1078691/… to solve.
– Doc
Sep 26 at 18:49
i tried reinstalling all the packages as described by @telcoM which didn't work out well. Now I have another problem askubuntu.com/questions/1078691/… to solve.
– Doc
Sep 26 at 18:49
i tried reinstalling all the packages as described by @telcoM which didn't work out well. Now I have another problem askubuntu.com/questions/1078691/… to solve.
– Doc
Sep 26 at 18:49
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