[cobalt-users] Raq4 admin gui files gone

["Rob Prince" <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is a strange problem; I appreciate in advance any help I can get. I
have looked in the archives and googled all I can to no avail.

My admin gui (control panel) started working sluggishly last week; it
worked this way for several days. Then, one day it stopped working
entirely; I get a "Page cannot be displayed" error in IE.

If I look in /home/log/httpd/adm_error, I see this error:

[error] [client ip address] File does not exist:
/usr/admserv/html/.cobalt/sysManage/index.html.

If I look at the directory structure of my Raq4, there is no sysManage
sub-directory. The only directory under .cobalt is siteManage. The closest
full path related to the path listed in the error message above is:

/usr/admserv/html/.cobalt/siteManage/home/index.html

The full directory listing of /usr/admserv/html/.cobalt/siteManage/home:

[root /usr/admserv/html/.cobalt/siteManage/home]
# ll
total 70
drwxr-xr-x    5 root     root         1024 Aug  1 17:39 .
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root         1024 Jul 31 12:01 ..
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         1024 Aug  1 16:36 ftp.report
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         5026 Aug  1 16:36 index.html
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         1024 Aug  1 16:36 mail.report
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          663 Aug  1 16:36 menu0-0.html
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         3856 Aug  1 16:36 menu0.html
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          663 Aug  1 16:36 menu1-0.html
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         3857 Aug  1 16:36 menu10.html
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         3856 Aug  1 16:36 menu1.html
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          663 Aug  1 16:36 menu2-0.html
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         3856 Aug  1 16:36 menu2.html
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          663 Aug  1 16:36 menu3-0.html
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         3856 Aug  1 16:36 menu3.html
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          663 Aug  1 16:36 menu4-0.html
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         3856 Aug  1 16:36 menu4.html
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         1470 Aug  1 16:36 menu5-0.html
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         1470 Aug  1 16:36 menu5-1.html
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         1470 Aug  1 16:36 menu5-2.html
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         1470 Aug  1 16:36 menu5-3.html
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         3856 Aug  1 16:36 menu5.html
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          663 Aug  1 16:36 menu6-0.html
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         3856 Aug  1 16:36 menu6.html
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          663 Aug  1 16:36 menu7-0.html
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         3856 Aug  1 16:36 menu7.html
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         3857 Aug  1 16:36 menu8.html
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         3857 Aug  1 16:36 menu9.html
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          624 Aug  1 16:36 right.html
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         1024 Aug  1 16:36 web.report

So, being clever, I thought that I would cp the entire directory above to
/usr/admserv/html/.cobalt/sysManage/, then try to access the admin page
and see what errors I got:

[error] [client ip address] File does not exist:
/usr/admserv/html/.cobalt/images/a2_nav_tile
[error] [client ip address] File does not exist:
/usr/admserv/html/.cobalt/images/a2_nav_spacer
[error] [client ip address] File does not exist:
/usr/admserv/html/.cobalt/images/a2_top_logo
[error] [client ip address] File does not exist:
/usr/admserv/html/.cobalt/images/a2_user_manage_but_on
[error] [client ip address] File does not exist:
/usr/admserv/html/.cobalt/images/a2_list_manage_but_off
[error] [client ip address] File does not exist:
/usr/admserv/html/.cobalt/images/a2_site_settings_but_off
[error] [client ip address] File does not exist:
/usr/admserv/html/.cobalt/images/a2_ftp_set_but_off
[error] [client ip address] File does not exist:
/usr/admserv/html/.cobalt/images/a2_usage_but_off
[error] [client ip address] File does not exist:
/usr/admserv/html/.cobalt/images/a2_ssl_but_off
[error] [client ip address] File does not exist:
/usr/admserv/html/.cobalt/images/a2_restore_but_off
[error] [client ip address] File does not exist:
/usr/admserv/html/.cobalt/shared/blank.html
[error] [client ip address] File does not exist:
/usr/admserv/html/.cobalt/images/a2_backup_but_off
[error] [client ip address] File does not exist:
/usr/admserv/html/.cobalt/images/a2_serv_manage_but_off
[error] [client ip address] File does not exist:
/usr/admserv/html/.cobalt/images/a_top_tile
[error] [client ip address] File does not exist:
/usr/admserv/html/.cobalt/images/a2_nav_dots
[error] [client ip address] File does not exist:
/usr/admserv/html/.cobalt/images/a_title_dot
[error] [client ip address] File does not exist:
/usr/admserv/html/.cobalt/shared/blank.html

So, I then tried to find one of the files above to see if they existed on
the system:

find / -name a_title_dot 2>/dev/null

which returns nothing.

After all of this typing and pasting, my question is: What happened to the
admin gui and how can I restore it? I have not made any backups (I sure
will from now on!).

Thanks again,

=Rob