Hello everyone: Well, seems there's trouble right here in River City :-( I was planning to do a fresh install on my AMD 64 / SuSE 9.3 desktop machine and decided to save my '/home/mike' directory on a separate hard drive (which I did). I then performed a basic install and then copied the 'saved' /home/mike directory to replace the /home/mike directory created during the install. Not sure what I did or didn't do but when I tried to open the files or use the devices, I kept getting KDE error messages (will not save configuration). I have now done anohter clean install but, if possible, would like to use the 'saved' /home/mike directory. Not sure if this is a permissions problem or what. The old directory is still on the separate hard drive so I do have access to it. During the last corrputed install, I was able to save important working files to my laptop so all is not lost. It would be nice if I could salvage my earlier settings, etc., as this would save me a lot of grief. Any ideas. I did offer Tux a sacrifice of dandylions and some dead bugs - not sure if this will help ;-) Cheers, Mike
* Mike Roy <mjroy2416@rogers.com> [08-13-05 10:44]:
Well, seems there's trouble right here in River City :-( I was planning to do a fresh install on my AMD 64 / SuSE 9.3 desktop machine and decided to save my '/home/mike' directory on a separate hard drive (which I did). I then performed a basic install and then copied the 'saved' /home/mike directory to replace the /home/mike directory created during the install. Not sure what I did or didn't do but when I tried to open the files or use the devices, I kept getting KDE error messages (will not save configuration). I have now done anohter clean install but, if possible, would like to use the 'saved' /home/mike directory. Not sure if this is a permissions problem or what. The old directory is still on the separate hard drive so I do have access to it.
Sounds like you may have a different user id for 'mike' this time around and kde does not have write permissions. But this is just a guess. Check your user id and compare. If different, change one or the other to match. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery
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* Mike Roy <mjroy2416@rogers.com> [08-13-05 10:44]:
Well, seems there's trouble right here in River City :-( I was planning to do a fresh install on my AMD 64 / SuSE 9.3 desktop machine and decided to save my '/home/mike' directory on a separate hard drive (which I did). I then performed a basic install and then copied the 'saved' /home/mike directory to replace the /home/mike directory created during the install. Not sure what I did or didn't do but when I tried to open the files or use the devices, I kept getting KDE error messages (will not save configuration). I have now done anohter clean install but, if possible, would like to use the 'saved' /home/mike directory. Not sure if this is a permissions problem or what. The old directory is still on the separate hard drive so I do have access to it.
Sounds like you may have a different user id for 'mike' this time around and kde does not have write permissions. But this is just a guess.
Check your user id and compare. If different, change one or the other to match.
I've found using the saved .kde throws up problems with .DCOPserver_<hostname>__0. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Keen licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks
On Saturday 13 August 2005 10:43, Mike Roy wrote:
Hello everyone: Well, seems there's trouble right here in River City :-( I was planning to do a fresh install on my AMD 64 / SuSE 9.3 desktop machine and decided to save my '/home/mike' directory on a separate hard drive (which I did). I then performed a basic install and then copied the 'saved' /home/mike directory to replace the /home/mike directory created during the install. Not sure what I did or didn't do but when I tried to open the files or use the devices, I kept getting KDE error messages (will not save configuration). I have now done anohter clean install but, if possible, would like to use the 'saved' /home/mike directory. Not sure if this is a permissions problem or what. The old directory is still on the separate hard drive so I do have access to it. During the last corrputed install, I was able to save important working files to my laptop so all is not lost. It would be nice if I could salvage my earlier settings, etc., as this would save me a lot of grief. Any ideas. I did offer Tux a sacrifice of dandylions and some dead bugs - not sure if this will help ;-) Cheers, Mike
You don't say what version of Linux your old home directory came from but is possible the user IDs don't match. Even if they are both known as "mike" that doesn't mean the actual numeric UID matches. For example older SuSE versions used 500 as the first general user's UID. Latest version (9.3, don't know about 9.2) uses 1000. Several ways to fix this, but I think there are two basic approaches: 1) Do what you attempted above, but also change ownership of the old /home/mike/* to "mike" thereby getting the new numeric UID. 2) Let SuSE create a new home directory for you and then copy your original files to your new home directory. I suggest the second option because there may be some configuration files (e.g. .kde/*, .profile, .bash_rc, etc.) having new or changed contents reflecting differences in the newer SusE, You may not want to simply replace these new files with your old ones. Bob
On Saturday 13 August 2005 11:43 am, Mike Roy wrote:
Not sure what I did or didn't do but when I tried to open the files or use the devices, I kept getting KDE error messages (will not save configuration). I have now done anohter clean install but, if possible, would like to use the 'saved' /home/mike directory. Not sure if this is a permissions problem or what. The old directory is still on the separate hard drive so I do have access to it.
Yes......it's probably either an ownership and/or permissions problem. Fred -- Planet Earth - a subsidiary of Microsoft. We have no bugs in our software, Never! We do have undocumented added features, that you will find amusing, at no added cost to you, at this time.
Yes......it's probably either an ownership and/or permissions problem.
Fred A. Miller wrote: possibly an uid problem. compare uid/gid of the two installs jdd -- pour m'écrire, aller sur: http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.net http://arvamip.free.fr
On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 11:43 -0400, Mike Roy wrote:
Hello everyone: Well, seems there's trouble right here in River City :-( I was planning to do a fresh install on my AMD 64 / SuSE 9.3 desktop machine and decided to save my '/home/mike' directory on a separate hard drive (which I did). I then performed a basic install and then copied the 'saved' /home/mike directory to replace the /home/mike directory created during the install. Not sure what I did or didn't do but when I tried to open the files or use the devices, I kept getting KDE error messages (will not save configuration). I have now done anohter clean install but, if possible, would like to use the 'saved' /home/mike directory. Not sure if this is a permissions problem or what. The old directory is still on the separate hard drive so I do have access to it.
Which <user> did the copying? I ran into this very same thing, when as root I copied all of the /home/<user?> to a new partition. Root then owned everything. I solved it by opening a terminal su to root and chowned all of the /home/<user?> directories back to each <user?>, you can of course use kdesu Konqueror and change the ownerships under properties for the various directories.
During the last corrputed install, I was able to save important working files to my laptop so all is not lost. It would be nice if I could salvage my earlier settings, etc., as this would save me a lot of grief.
Settings are problematic, during a 9.1 to 9,3 upgrade (new install old /home) I had lots of KDE problems, it's really the user data files I'm now concerned with.
Any ideas. I did offer Tux a sacrifice of dandylions and some dead bugs - not sure if this will help ;-)
Probably not. :)
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