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	tanago	2013-01-04 , 10:53
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By mistake I deleted the contents of the /root folder on my N900 and now I cant gain root permissions with "sudo gainroot/root/rush" and I dont want to reflash because I have very much apps and media on the phone. Thank you very much in advance!

Last edited by tanago; 2013-01-08 at 00:10.

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	sifo	2013-01-04 , 14:31
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Have you rebooted your N900 ? i think it will be regenerated after the reboot...
Good luck

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reinob	2013-01-04 , 15:13
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The fact that /root doesn't exist should not prevent you from doing "root", "sudo gainroot", or "su".

Are you sure this is the only thing you've deleted?

Just gain root (somehow

and "mkdir /root". There's nothing important in that directory anyway (root doesn't really need a home).

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marmistrz	2013-01-04 , 15:27
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Originally Posted by reinob

The fact that /root doesn't exist should not prevent you from doing "root", "sudo gainroot", or "su".

Are you sure this is the only thing you've deleted?

Just gain root (somehow and "mkdir /root". There's nothing important in that directory anyway (root doesn't really need a home).

If you really need it, you might want to extract the SSU images. But don't know how to do it.

If you need to mkdir /root as root, you might do it via scp

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anthonie	2013-01-04 , 15:50
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If you run a linux flavor on your PC, you should be able to extract the files from the bin with... unzip.

IIRC, Winrar does the trick as well, just in case you're using the Redmond OS.

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	tanago	2013-01-04 , 17:08
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Originally Posted by sifo

Have you rebooted your N900 ? i think it will be regenerated after the reboot...
Good luck

No it doesnt regen...

Here's the story:
I had to extract an archive, I issued

Code:

root

then

Code:

tar xf /path/to/archive/blabla.tar

but I forgot to

Code:

cd

to the folder and it extracted the archive in

/root folder

I realised that and without thinking I issued

Code:

rm -r *

and removed coincidentally .profile and .bashrc, now whenever i gain root permissions and I try to install any package it returns

dpkg: `ldconfig' not found on PATH.
dpkg: `start-stop-daemon' not found on PATH.
dpkg: `install-info' not found on PATH.
dpkg: `update-rc.d' not found on PATH.
dpkg: 4 expected program(s) not found on PATH.
NB: root's PATH should usually contain /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin and /sbin.
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)

so I need the contents of the /root folder

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sixwheeledbeast	2013-01-04 , 17:54
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Originally Posted by tanago

so I need the contents of the /root folder

Both my N900's have different contains in /root
You may find that it will not fix all your problems.

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	bingomion	2013-01-05 , 02:05
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wow! Qicker just reflashing.. Copy your stuff of it if its still on maybe?

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sixwheeledbeast	2013-01-05 , 11:21
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Reflasing combined should fix without losing much data.

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	tanago	2013-01-05 , 18:11
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Its a very long procedure to reflash - reinstalling programs, copying media to and from the PC - 2-3 hours. Nevermind I made my own .bashrc and .profile and now its working