[opensuse] mix up on home directory installing 12.1
Hi all, Ok, I went to install 12.1, and here is what happened. I had sda6 as root with 11.4 installed, and so I selected a new install on sda7 (a separate partition I had set aside for this purpose). I have sda8 as my home directory. Here is the problem, which goes back to when I installed 11.4. When I first installed it, I set my user name as "george" and so my home directory was /home/george on sda8. Then at a later date, I changed my username to "georgelenovo", but I wanted to keep my home directory as /home/george, so I selected in Yast not to switch my home directory. So now I log in as "georgelenovo" but my home directory on 11.4 was still /home/george. Now fast forward to today. I installed 12.1, and I set up my username as "georgelenovo". The setup program created a new directory called /home/georgelenovo and put all the KDE files in that directory. So when I boot up in 12.1 it goes to a completely new install and none of my kde settings are there. But when I boot up in 11.4 everything works like before. So how do I get my system to point to /home/george as my home directory and still have my login be "georgelenovo"? I assume that if I can make that work, then all my KDE settings will be the same but I will be running 12.1 instead. After I make that work, I will delete the /home/georgelenovo directory. Thanks, George -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
George Olson said the following on 12/19/2011 06:03 AM:
So when I boot up in 12.1 it goes to a completely new install and none of my kde settings are there. But when I boot up in 11.4 everything works like before.
So how do I get my system to point to /home/george as my home directory and still have my login be "georgelenovo"?
I assume that if I can make that work, then all my KDE settings will be the same but I will be running 12.1 instead. After I make that work, I will delete the /home/georgelenovo directory.
The "obvious" answer is to make the entry in /etc/passwd on the 12.1 look like the one on the 11.4, that is edit the field that specifies the home directory. I'd use VIM[1]. Read the man page for /etc/passwd for details of which fields are which, but if you look at the two versions of the /etc/passwd file it will be glaringly obvious. Which makes me wonder how you changed the name on the 11.4 system in the first place. I'd have done it with VIM[1], myself. [1] The non scouring kind. -- "You have heard me remark that the strangest and most unique things are very often connected not with the larger but with the smaller crimes, and occasionally, indeed, where there is room for doubt whether any positive crime has been committed." -- Sherlock Holmes, in "The Red Headed League" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 12/19/2011 08:22 PM, Anton Aylward wrote:
George Olson said the following on 12/19/2011 06:03 AM:
The "obvious" answer is to make the entry in /etc/passwd on the 12.1 look like the one on the 11.4, that is edit the field that specifies the home directory. I'd use VIM[1]. Read the man page for /etc/passwd for details of which fields are which, but if you look at the two versions of the /etc/passwd file it will be glaringly obvious.
Great! That worked. I now booted in and all my KDE settings are the same. Except some of the plasmoids for some reason aren't there.
Which makes me wonder how you changed the name on the 11.4 system in the first place. I'd have done it with VIM[1], myself.
I used the user and group management settings in Yast2. When I changed my user name under existing local user, it prompted me if I wanted to change my home directory, and I said no. George
[1] The non scouring kind.
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Just documenting the problem with an article.
Great! That worked. I now booted in and all my KDE settings are the same. Except some of the plasmoids for some reason aren't there.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/how-to-rename-user-ac... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 02:57:23PM +0530, Sujit Karatparambil wrote:
Just documenting the problem with an article.
Great! That worked. I now booted in and all my KDE settings are the same. Except some of the plasmoids for some reason aren't there.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/how-to-rename-user-ac...
This might be a bug or a feature of the user creation. One you entered foogagu as account name the home directory is set to /home/foogagu Next you see this and decide my name is foogaga while the installer keeps /home/foogagu unmodified. I would count it a bug as the majority would not expect this behavior. Therefore please file a bug report where you reference this thread as http://lists.opensuse.org/openSUSE/2011-12/msg01166.html and later report the bug ID back in a reply to the same thread. Thanks. Lars -- Lars Müller [ˈlaː(r)z ˈmʏlɐ] Samba Team SUSE Linux, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
On 12/21/2011 08:36 PM, Lars Müller wrote:
I would count it a bug as the majority would not expect this behavior. Therefore please file a bug report where you reference this thread as http://lists.opensuse.org/openSUSE/2011-12/msg01166.html and later report the bug ID back in a reply to the same thread.
Thanks.
Lars
Hi Lars, The URL there seems to be empty. Is there a typo somewhere? Working on filling out the bug report. George -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Thu, 2011-12-22 at 21:04 +0800, George Olson wrote:
On 12/21/2011 08:36 PM, Lars Müller wrote:
I would count it a bug as the majority would not expect this behavior. Therefore please file a bug report where you reference this thread as http://lists.opensuse.org/openSUSE/2011-12/msg01166.html and later report the bug ID back in a reply to the same thread.
Thanks.
Lars
Hi Lars,
The URL there seems to be empty. Is there a typo somewhere?
Working on filling out the bug report.
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2011-12/msg01166.html => one of the cases where openSUSE is not written with caps. Dominique -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 12/22/2011 09:13 PM, Dimstar / Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
On Thu, 2011-12-22 at 21:04 +0800, George Olson wrote:
On 12/21/2011 08:36 PM, Lars Müller wrote:
I would count it a bug as the majority would not expect this behavior. Therefore please file a bug report where you reference this thread as http://lists.opensuse.org/openSUSE/2011-12/msg01166.html and later report the bug ID back in a reply to the same thread.
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2011-12/msg01166.html
=> one of the cases where openSUSE is not written with caps.
Dominique
Thanks! Here is the bug report: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=738279 George -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 09:27:08PM +0800, George Olson wrote:
On 12/22/2011 09:13 PM, Dimstar / Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
On Thu, 2011-12-22 at 21:04 +0800, George Olson wrote:
On 12/21/2011 08:36 PM, Lars Müller wrote:
I would count it a bug as the majority would not expect this behavior. Therefore please file a bug report where you reference this thread as http://lists.opensuse.org/openSUSE/2011-12/msg01166.html and later report the bug ID back in a reply to the same thread.
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2011-12/msg01166.html
=> one of the cases where openSUSE is not written with caps.
http://lists.openSUSE.org/opensuse/2011-12/msg01166.html was intended. tstst. Looks like I didn't got enough coffee.
Thanks!
Here is the bug report: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=738279
As the issue you've seen is at the end of the install workflow I've changed the Component to YaST. Please correct me if I'm wrong. Thanks for filing the bug! Lars -- Lars Müller [ˈlaː(r)z ˈmʏlɐ] Samba Team SUSE Linux, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
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