Re: [Gnewsense-dev] gnewsense 3.0 install

[dww]

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 <address@hidden> 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
>