[Leaplist] Problems w/ users under CentOS 5.3 ....

[William A. Mahaffey III]

On 09/01/09 10:45, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> Oh, this is simple.  Reality:  you switched to a Fedora-based system
> from a SuSE-based system, and an older one at that.  Expect issues.
>
> 1.  You were running an older version of SuSE, with an older GNOME
>
> Although you were using KDE, it's very likely the /etc/skel put in an
> older GNOME profile that was unused, possible different.  Blow away
> .gnome* and .gtk* (after backing them up) in one of your user's
> directories.
>
> 2.  Fedora and SuSE based systems have different profile/bash settings
>
> You have users with /etc/skel from a SuSE-based system, and now
> you're running a Fedora-based system.  You will likely need to modify
> user .[bash_]profile and/or .bashrc as appropriate.  I'd start with the
> one from /etc/skel on the new CentOS release.
>
>
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I *did* start from the pristine CentOS after the 1st barf: I renamed the 
offending home directory & let the 'users & groups' manager do its thing 
setting up a brand new, box-stock 'stub' home directory (several times). 
Still nogo. It seemed to me that somehow Gnome or something else was/is 
remembering the original setup somehow even though I (thought I) cleaned 
it out.


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