[Klug-general] Ubuntu Query

[rich-ayres at tiscali.co.uk]

Thanks Mike
       Problem solved - will bear in mind for future.

       Rich

>----Original Message----
>From: mike at tandem.f9.co.uk
>Date: 10/06/2009 10:53 
>To: "rich-ayres at tiscali.co.uk"<rich-ayres at tiscali.co.uk>, "Kent Linux 
User Group - General Topics"<kent at mailman.lug.org.uk>
>Subj: Re: [Klug-general] Ubuntu Query
>
>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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