I have a separate home partition which contains all personal data etc. When I get a new version of SuSE I usually upgrade by formating all other partitions and installing as new. When I setup my user account (versions ealier than 8.0) it assigns the existing home area to the user. If necessary I alter the uid to match (because I don't use the default). Everything works fine. In SuSE 8.0, with the new and wonderful yast2, it would not allow me to create the user because the home area already existed and was in use by another user, neither would it allow me to change the uid. Eventually, I created a second home area which I promptly deleted and manually edited the passwd and group files. Just wondered if anyone else had a similar experience, and to my beloved experts what would you do? Is there a better way to handle this? Thanks in advance. Eddie
Eddie Howson wrote:
In SuSE 8.0, with the new and wonderful yast2, it would not allow me to create the user because the home area already existed and was in use by another user, neither would it allow me to change the uid. Eventually, I created a second home area which I promptly deleted and manually edited the passwd and group files.
**** Below a joke **** Unfortunately for us, the plain world users, this feature was removed by a beatiful-windows-looks-better-than-plain-text guru. **** Above a joke **** Hit number 2, other _GREAT_ feature missed in Yast2. I kindly suggest you to email also at mailto:feedback@suse.com and complain about it. Feedback is great for developers, and if previous code exists, IMHO it's easy to implement this feature and, while Yast2 is modular I hope that in updates and/or in 8.1 it will be included. -- [---------------------------------------------------------------] [ Prof. Andres Augusto Nogueiras Melendez ] [ Departamento de Tecnologia Electronica - Universidad de Vigo ] [ Campus Lagoas Marcosende, 9 http://www.dte.uvigo.es ] [ 36280 - Vigo, Pontevedra mailto:aaugusto@uvigo.es ] [ Spain tel: +34 986 812 091 fax: +34 986 469 547 ] [---------------------------------------------------------------]
I just got a new machine which I installed SuSE linux on (Came with red hat and ran fine), and after its running for a few minutes idle, the system locks up and does nadda untill reboot... When checking /var/log/messages the error before the reboot throws hdc: interrupt lost with hdc being my primary drive. Anyone know what this means and what is causing it/possible fix? If you need more info, feel free to ask. Thank you: Robert -- ********************************************************************** This post is encrypted in the "english language method", any attempt to decipher meaning from these symbols is a violation of the DMCA. This includes, but is not limited to: interpreting the symbols through use of biological, visual decryption devices, translating the symbols into another language encryption scheme, and digital processing the symbols into a form conducive to oral intrepretation. Thank you for your time. **********************************************************************
My solution is to do # tar zcvf /tmp/home.tgz /home note the UIDs of the users (probably not critical, but helpful), copy home.tgz and various others like etc.tgz root.tgz var_lib.tgz to CD-ROM then install. After a fresh install, I copy the files back to /tmp and untar them. Then create users in the right order. Then the users should be able to copy their own files back as needed. For example, I copied back my netscape settings - no lost email - but reconfigured gimp (mouse had a new name). JDL Eddie Howson wrote:
I have a separate home partition which contains all personal data etc. When I get a new version of SuSE I usually upgrade by formating all other partitions and installing as new. When I setup my user account (versions ealier than 8.0) it assigns the existing home area to the user. If necessary I alter the uid to match (because I don't use the default). Everything works fine.
In SuSE 8.0, with the new and wonderful yast2, it would not allow me to create the user because the home area already existed and was in use by another user, neither would it allow me to change the uid. Eventually, I created a second home area which I promptly deleted and manually edited the passwd and group files.
Just wondered if anyone else had a similar experience, and to my beloved experts what would you do? Is there a better way to handle this?
Thanks in advance.
Eddie
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Andrés A. Nogueiras Meléndez
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Eddie Howson
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John Lamb
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Phantasm