[YLUG] automount gnome

[Patrick Dupre]

On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, mike cloaked wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Liam Wilson <liam.wilson at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> A quick google search for:
>>
>> gnome disable automounter
>>
>> gave me the answer (1st result). Looks like the gnome developers
>> (in their infinte wisdom) have moved the option to gconf.
>>
>> Liam
>
> In fact in F10, for a "clean" install, partitions that are not defined
> in fstab are not mounted in Gnome.  However if a user area is copied
> back verbatim from an old Fedora setup to an F10 user area, then the
> gnome "dot" files will likely have settings relevant to the older
> system, and that will more than likely cause one or more problems in
> F10.  I believe that the OP did a huge jump from FC7 to F10 using a
> yum update, and likely did not clear out the gnome config files from
> the user areas before he did so, but perhaps he could confirm this?
> Also in F10 there are large changes in the KDE4 configs as well so
> using old user areas is likely to lead to significant problems. Hence
> my method for upgrade as in the next paragraph.

I did update from FC7 to FC10 by using the DVD and the update option.
Then I made yum update.
Doing so, gnome-session fails for each users (old or new ones) except root
but KDE works fine !
I af correcr, I did the same from FC6 to FC10 and did not face the same
problem.

>
> What I did for F10, particularly since I went from F8 to F10, was to
> move all the user areas from /home/user to something like
> /home/user.f8 and then did a clean install of F10. At the end of the
> install I then allowed a new user area to be created with the same
> name as my original main user.  Then once the system was running I
> then copied the user directories (recursively where necessary) from
> /home/user.f8/* to /home/user/ and being very careful not to copy back
> the gnome or KDE4 config files since so much has changed in the new
> version. Then for any other user on the same machine I made new areas
> using useradd, and then copied back the user files from the f8
> versions as above.  For the "dot" files in every case I only copied
> back .ssh, .Skype, .gnupg2 and other relevant config files that I knew
> would be unchanged in F10. I did not copy the .g....  or .kde....
> files and allowed the system to create them for me, including when
> switching from gnome to kde4 logins.
>
> I strongly believe that unless this kind of careful install is done
> for F10 then a lot of time will be spent diagnosing problems that are
> the result of inappropriate old config files being used in F10 that
> are relics of very old and now "end-of-life" versions of Fedora. With
> a clean install the chances of such problems will be very small
> indeed.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
>

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