After a failed Fedora 26 upgrade on Friday, I spent the day trying to recover a corrupted rpm database, missing packages, not booting into gdm. I recovered it enough to boot, but it’s really in a weird state.
While preparing to backup my homedir, I was go through files I no longer needed. I’ve been cargo culting my homedir since I started working at Red Hat in 2004.
Here are the oldest files from day one:
[jesusr@transam ~]$ grep "Apr 19 2004" /tmp/2004files.tzt -rw-r-----. 1 jesusr jesusr 153 Apr 19 2004 ./.config/nautilus/first-time-flag -rw-r-----. 1 jesusr jesusr 82 Apr 19 2004 ./.metacity/sessions/1082391428-6426-2821178921.ms -rw-r-----. 1 jesusr jesusr 356 Apr 19 2004 ./.metacity/sessions/1082412707-4015-1328912501.ms -rw-r-----. 1 jesusr jesusr 82 Apr 19 2004 ./.metacity/sessions/1082413316-4377-2885991371.ms -rw-rw-r--. 1 jesusr jesusr 226 Apr 19 2004 ./cvs/rhn/ncsu-student-projects/message-bus/rhn/LoggerTest/.classpath -rw-rw-r--. 1 jesusr jesusr 369 Apr 19 2004 ./cvs/rhn/ncsu-student-projects/message-bus/rhn/LoggerTest/.project -rw-rw-r--. 1 jesusr jesusr 6377 Apr 19 2004 ./cvs/rhn/ncsu-student-projects/message-bus/rhn/SqlTest/src/TestDB.java -rwxrwxr--. 1 jesusr jesusr 5441 Apr 19 2004 ./cvs/rhn/up2date/test/PyFontify.py -rwxrwxr--. 1 jesusr jesusr 17900 Apr 19 2004 ./cvs/rhn/up2date/test/cov2html.py -rw-rw-r--. 1 jesusr jesusr 23499 Apr 19 2004 ./cvs/rhn/up2date/test/coverage.py -rwxrwxr--. 1 jesusr jesusr 2043 Apr 19 2004 ./cvs/rhn/up2date/test/testRhnChannel.py -rwxrwxr--. 1 jesusr jesusr 4648 Apr 19 2004 ./cvs/rhn/up2date/test/testTransactions.py
Go through my homedir is like a digital archaeological dig 🙂
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