On Sunday 21 May 2006 11:07, Bruce Marshall wrote:
Hmmm.... I didn't change anything, but both 10.1 and 10.0 share the same /home directory. Could it be that something is screwed up on my home directory now that prevents either system from starting graphics.
My understanding is that sharing the same /home/{user}/ directory across releases is asking for trouble. The newer version updates whatever obsoleted parts it finds in the environment. This usually confuses the earlier version when it's booted. I would think these kinds of problems might be amplified in cases where the later version is, itself, somehow 'broken.' I've got 9.3, 10.0 and 10.1 coexisting nicely on this system. I have: /home/carl93 /home/carl10 /home/carl10-1 Each started as 'pristine', i.e. as created during installation of the corresponding version. All were subsequently updated to KDE 3.5.2 level 'a' supplementary. Each has a discreet copy of the relatively static data (i.e. I've done a 'cp -rp' on .gnupg, .Skype, .gaim, mail *config* files and so on) but my /Documents and mail folders are symlinked to one dynamic data store... presently under /carl10.. so it doesn't matter which version I'm booted into, my data is always in 'sync'. When I'm confident that 10.1 is going to work the way I want it, I'll cp -rp the dynamic data over and modify my symlinks, accordingly. This gives me two immediate 'fallback' systems that are compatible with my backups, which i keep on separate disks/partitions that are only mounted when I take the snapshots. regards, Carl