I Quit!
Have you seen my keys?
When I made the account, I must have forgotten to note my Private Key on paper and on an encrypted pen drive, which has been my habit for all other wallets that I own.
a real picture of my real computer
This is a rule that I harp on with every person that I pull into the crypto world. Yet because I had made this account long ago, I must have neglected that one detail. Then disaster hit right after I had charged up @ezrider to begin my voting extravaganza.
Posting on LeoFinance was my new favorite part of the day. Then the computer started acting up. I was forced to do a hard reboot, and I found myself staring at an emergency prompt.
Old backups are all I have. But they do not include my newest accounts. I am missing the Owner, Active, Posting, and Memo keys for my Hive account.
You ask where I have been?
I found myself learning a whole bunch of new commands lvm, vgscan, vgchange -ay There was a rumor that one series of these could mount the encrypted volume from another machine. I tried that, it hung when it got 75% of the way through decryption.
I formulated a plan to get my keys back. I went to buy a new hard disk, planning to run a repair command that may bring up the system one time - then never again. I got a terabyte drive to back up all I can if and when it boots up.
I ran the same commands I had seen in that post. I learned Vim so I could edit a configuration file, then back to the lvm prompt to run the repair. I rebooted - and my system was up. It was twenty minutes before it became unstable again.
I made a backup of the one secure portion where my keys were stored. This can only be done with a backup utility for my OS. It finished, then everything started going haywire again. That disk is now unable to boot.
In my case, I cannot just hand over my hard disk to someone for repair either, there are too many crypto keys on it. If I ever go for my MS in Computer Science, I may get it back but it is likely gone until then. At least I have that backup file. If the drive was legible, I should have my keys.
The backup had failed to restore on some older versions of my OS. I thought @ezrider was gone for good. Then I did a complete reinstall of my Linux system (same version) and tried the restoration of my keys backup - Success!
I may not have much reading time for weeks until next year because I am still restoring wallets, getting core nodes up, and downloading blockchains. But I will be back to voting as of today. Feel free to ping me if you have a post I should see!
So I lost a half month of voting and a ton of time on research into repairing encrypted volumes. I am left questioning the "gumstick" drive I had bought just over a year ago. The newest best tech is not always what you want. I am back on a SataIII SSD for now.
Just because your Hive account is fun, interesting, and contains pictures does not mean it is not a cyrpto wallet. I snaked through and got my keys back but that will not always be the case. Take some time and check your paper backups and make some encrypted pen drives to store at other locations.
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