[Klug-general] Ubuntu Query

[Mike Evans]

Rich,

Although I can't be sure, whatever detected the problem and gave you the 
'user friendly' error message should have written something more 
detailed to the system error log.  As system administrator on your 
system it expects you to be competent to look at that :)  Gnome even 
provides you with a helpful reader for the system log - so even 
CLI-phobes have no excuse!  (Look under Applications/System Tools/System 
Log)

My guess is that some configuration file written by your previous 
installation of linux - from which you took your /home directory - has 
put something appropriate to that system in a subdirectory of .gnome or 
.gnome2.

When I copy /home from one system to another I generally avoid the 
.gnome and .gnome2 directories and let the new system write them.

Having fallen into this trap you may need to create a new user on your 
system and log in as them.  Then copy those two directories back over to 
your own home directory - as root of course.  THEN: go make sure that 
their contents and all subdirectories belong to you.  (chown -R and 
chgrp -R)

It is an unfortunate oversight on *nix systems that the home directory 
contains the user's personal files but also contains information that is 
particular to that user on THAT system and is not necessarily 
transferable.

Regards,
Mike

rich-ayres at tiscali.co.uk wrote:
> Hi All
>  Have recently reinstalled "Hardy Heron" on my machine with a separate 
> partition for /home. The installer did not want to give me this option, 
> but I persevered and eventually got what I wanted. Restored all my 
> /home files from backup without problems. The system now has a problem 
> in that I get a message "INSTALL PROBLEM  Configuration defaults for 
> GNOME power manager are incorrectly configured. See your Administrator"
>  Very "Microsoft " to me, and as I am the administrator and haven't a 
> clue, quite perplexing.
>         Help appreciated.. 
>            Rich
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