On Wed Aug 21 10:33:42 2013 dww <[email protected]> wrote: > On my laptop which had 2.3, I installed from DVD. The installation went > fine through the Gnome log-in screen. I did not reformat my home > partition. Upon logging in I got the following error: > > "Could not update ICEauthority file /home/[username]/.ICEauthority" ... > I figured that all the files in the home directory and subdirectories > had the same username as before but a user id number from 2.3 but 3.0 > had assigned a different user id number. > > I rebooted into recovery mode and from the root command prompt: > > chown -R [username] /home/[username]/ > > After this the full Gnome desktop appeared correctly after rebooting and > logging in. > > Was my reasoning as to cause of the problem correct? Is this a problem
i would say thats correct, though of course cant be positive with the information provided. > that has occurred before and should it be in the documentation? If there is upgrading documentation i think this should be covered - it may not happen for everyone but s still likely enough to warrant recording. Thanks, kk _______________________________________________ gNewSense-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-dev
