Request to include in User Documentation - 'Clean install & /home-folder'

[Phil Bull]

Hi Roelski,

On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 14:18 +0000, Roel Van Ranst (Telenet) wrote:
> Dear Ubuntu User Documentation Team,
> 
> Amongst a few users we've been discussing possible /home-folder issues
> during an upgrade vs. clean install.  A number of suggestions were
> given, including the suggestion to bring it to the attention of you,
> the Doc-Team, in an polite attempt to have the item covered in a
> manual or howto.

I'm afraid it's too late to add this to the system documentation for
Feisty, as we passed string freeze a few weeks ago. I think that the
best place to start would be to create a new wiki page at
help.ubuntu.com and document the procedure there.

There would have to be separate instructions for GNOME and KDE I think,
and it's not as simple as it sounds. GNOME stores several
secret/encrypted files in ~/.gnome2 and ~/.gnome2_private IIRC, which
can't be read after a fresh install, but aren't recreated if they
already exist. This causes the user the be unable to log-in graphically.
At least, this is what happened to me the last time I tried it.

Thanks,

Phil

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