https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=738279 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=738279#c0 Summary: openSUSE creates user directory based on username before user is ready to define user directory Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 12.1 Version: Final Platform: 64bit OS/Version: SuSE Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: KDE4 Workspace AssignedTo: kde-maintainers@suse.de ReportedBy: grglsn765@gmail.com QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0 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", like I wanted, but I wanted to keep my old user directory as just /home/george. However, the setup program created a new directory called /home/georgelenovo and put all the KDE files in that directory. I was able to fix it on a tip from the openSUSE list to go to /etc/passwd and change the line for the home directory to point to /home/george instead of /home/georgelenovo. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Fresh install of openSUSE 12.1 2. set username 3. system will automatically set home directory to /home/username instead of prompting the user if that is the desired directory I was asked to file this bug report on the openSUSE list, and to reference the following openSUSE mailing list URL: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2011-12/msg01166.html -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.