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.... New to the list, BTW, howdy. We have a P4 machine at work
(work-station) which <b class="moz-txt-star"><span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span>was<span
class="moz-txt-tag">*</span></b> running SuSE 9.3 32-bit, w/ KDE
desktop for all users (actually, we all logged in as the boss's regular
user, he likes it that way). It had an 80 GB WD HDD (reiserfs) mounted
as /root & a 300 GB Seagate (ext3 fs) mounted as /home, both PATA,
both several years old. The 80 GB croaked last week & we procured a
replacement 80 GB SATA (mbd has both slots). We replaced the offending
drive today & proceeded to install CentOS 5.3 32-bit. The install
went OK, except for 1 little complexity. Since we had the 300 GB drive
already set up & ready to go, I just created the new non-root user
during the install w/ the same UID/GID as we were using before &
let anaconda do whatever it does back there to finish things up. I also
told it to mount that drive as /home. When I eventually tried to log in
as the regular user, Gnome barfed, never got fully logged in, left
itself in a catatonic state & I had to reboot the hard way. I
logged back in as root & renamed the old directory & went
through the 'users & groups' menu-dialog to delete & reinstall
the regular user. This didn't work either, Gnome still barfs when I try
to login the regular user. I went through several iterations of
remove/reinstall that user & still nogo. Is this a known problem w/
Gnome or CentOS 5.n ? I gotta believe this is pilot error, but I'm
stumped for now .... Any ideas how to extricate myself :-) ?
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William A. Mahaffey III
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"The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war
ever devised by man."
-- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.
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