Power loss and corruption of root account

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

Deleting the root account will render your system unusable if it allows you 
to do it. You can create another account and copy some of the GNOME config 
scripts and directories. 
On 30 Apr 2002 at 8:55, Ali Taalebi wrote:

> 
> 
> I lost power when I had logged in as root on my system which runs RedHat
> 7.2 & Gnome.
> 
> After I powered up the system again, I observed some corruption
> in my root account. For example, the task bars had disappeared from
> the bottom of the screen.
> 
> In the past, I had fixed similar user interface problems in other
> user accounts by using the "USER MANAGER" to delete the account
> corrupted account and recreate it again.
> Can I do the same for the "root" account to fix the corrupted root
> account without facing adverse side effects later?
> 
> Any other suggestions will be appreciated.
> 
> Thanks.
> >>Ali
> 
> 
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