I am willing to try and update the documentation. Do you have any recommendation of how I could have avoided this problem in an upgrade from 2.3 to 3.0? In this case I did not reformat the home directory and during the 3.0 install I used the same username.
Dennis On Wed, 2013-08-21 at 21:39 +1000, Karl Goetz wrote: > 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
