This week I was playing around on my trusty linux box (Ubuntu) and decided to upgrade my linux kernel. Simple enough, it was actually part of the general Ubuntu updates that I chose to apply to my 7.04 install.
Much to my disappointment, my vmware player no longer worked after the update. After playing around a bit, I figured it was because my kernel had been updated. So, I went about trying to install a new vmware player. I must have messed something up, because the install went ok, but the player now complained about mismatched modules.
So, I'm going around my system getting rid of all the old vmware references so that I can do a new install and I find myself in the usr/bin directory and I do:
/usr/bin rm -rf vmware*
to which my machine replies (paraphrase)
"Hey, bub you don't have permission to remove these files"
so, I say...oh yeah...
/usr/sudo bin rm -rf vmware *
Note the difference between the two statemets.
Yep, trusty old rm removed all the vmware files and...all of my other files under usr/bin, essentially rendering 95% of my machine useless.
I am (as we speak) ftp'ing into my machine to try to recover any files I need to backup before my fresh install of Ubuntu 7.10. Thank goodness that my ftp daemon is still running.
So, to make a long story short, sudo and I are on the outs right now...
