All settings, files. etc. have dissapeared

[clickbrain]

I didn't do anything differently last night, but all of my settings and files have dissapeared this morning upon reboot.

Ii am running Puppy 2.13 off a 1 GB USB key. For about a week now everything has been running smoothly. My network settings have been saved and retained. I have another bug, because you can not add a USB device to my system until after it boots, but that's OK.

I have saved files, a set of home pages in Sea Monkey, desktop background, video settings, etc. and all was working until I shut down my PC last night. This morning it's like a fresh reinstall of the OS. Nothing I had before is there. I had to reset the wireless network card, xorg, etc.

Between yesterday afternoon until laset night and through to this mornign, the only thing done on this PC was surfing the web. I have not installed anything nor have I changed any settings.

The one thing that happened is that I had a wireless USB mouse plugged in when I booted. When I forget to take it out, it will not boot and gives me a TTY error of some kind (I have it written down and will post). That happened this morning, so I pulled the mouse and rebooted. This has happened numerous times before though and I have never lost my files and settings like this.

I am going to run the checks for errors in the logs, but if anyone has ideas on how to get back and why this would happen, that would be great.

[clickbrain]

Here's my error log:


X Window System Version 7.0.0
Release Date: 21 December 2005
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.0
Build Operating System:Linux 2.6.18-inside-sandbox i386
Current Operating System: Linux puppypc 2.6.18.1 #1 Sat Nov 11 07:52:06 PUP 2006 i686
Build Date: 08 August 2006
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Tue Feb 6 05:25:01 2007
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"

(EE) Failed to load module "glx" (module does not exist, 0)
(WW) I810: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0:2:1) found
1280
768
1248
/usr/X11R7/bin/jwm
cat: /etc/networkusermodules: No such file or directory
cat: /etc/networkusermodules: No such file or directory
cat: /etc/networkusermodules: No such file or directory
cat: /etc/ethernetmodules: No such file or directory
Error : unrecognised wireless request "G"
Error : unrecognised wireless request "G"
loading user data
starting diagnostics
cardctl test
wide angle iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wifi0 no wireless extensions.

dhcpcd test
grep: /root/.etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-ath0.info: No such file or directory
wifi beta test
ls: /root/.etc/rc.d/*wireless*: No such file or directory
root user test
scan test
ap test
ip test
forming output
generating buttons
xmessage main dialog
running user action
action: dhcd
rm: cannot remove `/etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-ath0.*': No such file or directory
/usr/local/WAG/AppRun: line 427: 6557 Terminated xmessage -bg "$XM_BCOLOR" -center -name "wait" -title "$XM_TITLE" -buttons "" "Please wait... ${NL}Collecting wifi information "
dhcpcd: MAC address = 00:13:46:9e:83:6a
dhcpcd: your IP address = 192.168.1.102
loading user data
starting diagnostics
cardctl test
wide angle iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wifi0 no wireless extensions.

dhcpcd test
wifi beta test
ls: /root/.etc/rc.d/*wireless*: No such file or directory
root user test
scan test
ap test
ip test
forming output
generating buttons
xmessage main dialog
running user action
action: null
/usr/local/WAG/AppRun: line 706: 6695 Terminated xmessage -bg "$XM_BCOLOR" -center -name "wait" -title "$XM_TITLE" -buttons "" "Please wait... ${NL}Collecting wifi information "
/usr/local/WAG/AppRun: line 706: 6657 Terminated xmessage -bg "$XM_BCOLOR" -center -name "wait" -title "$XM_TITLE" -buttons "" "Please wait... ${NL}Performing action $FEEDBACK "