On Tuesday 24 March 2009 20:19:59 Michael Sullivan wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 14:33 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Michael Sullivan <msulli1...@gmail.com> 
wrote:
> > > A week ago I got in a 1 TB external hard drive.  I set it up for use
> > > with MythTV.  It worked fine.  So now I wanted to turn the old myth
> > > partition into my /home filesystem.  I reformatted it (mke2fs
> > > -j /dev/sda6), I mounted it on /mnt/floppy and moved my directories
> > > in /home over to it, then unmounted it, mounted it on /home and
> > > logged in.  Now almost every time I do anything I get a notice saying
> > > that gnome-settings-daemon has crashed.  I don't even kwow if it will
> > > let me send this email, but I've attached the bug report.  Please
> > > somebody help me!
> >
> > Were you logged in as a user when you moved the /home directories?
> > Maybe there were some open files that got messed up...
>
> I logged out of gnome, shut down xdm, and then logged in as root to
> move /home.

Just to ask the obvious: you don't have both partitions mounted on /home do 
you? And you have changed /etc/fstab to suit the new layout?

-- 
Rgds
Peter

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