[ubuntu-za] Home directory

[Charl Wentzel]

Clearly there's a problem in som of your configuration files. The best advice is to delete some configuration files, on reboot Ubuntu will create new ones.  I don't have my PC with me so I can't tell you which ones.

Here's what I can suggest...

1. Modify fstab to mount your old home dir as /home2. On reboot you will now see both your new and old home dirs as /home and /home2 respectively. 

2. Copy each of the files and dirs in your new home did to your old sir. But first rename the dirs you'll be overwriting in your old home did so you can recover. Don't copy obvious data only dirs like 'documents' and 'music' as these do not contain any configuration files.

This will result is that you will replace all faulty configuration files.

Hope this helps
Charl

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----- Reply message -----
From: "Bill Cairns" <cairnsww at gmail.com>
To: "Ubuntu South African Local Community" <ubuntu-za at lists.ubuntu.com>
Subject: [ubuntu-za] Home directory
Date: Sat, Jan 19, 2013 19:13


On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 6:41 PM, Hilton Gibson <hilton.gibson at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 19 January 2013 16:18, Bill Cairns <cairnsww at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> UUID=dd351cd8-79f9-479b-8297-65cbc834cc28 /home ext4 defaults 0 2
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> Looks correct.
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> Hilton Gibson

Well the answer is yes and no.

Yes - if I put that into fstab, my home directory is back to where it
used to be. So the question that I asked is now solved. Thanks to all
of you who helped.

But no. I am back to where I was and the system behaves like it used
to behave before I re-installed. In fact a bit worse. I started up ok
and logged in and had my nice Unity screen. i went into Nautilus and
checked everything is what is used to be. I tried to go into Firefox
and immediately got a Compiz error. Did I want to send an error report
- yes. Did i want to relaunch Compiz - yes. Compiz restarted and
immediately got another error.

I tried again - this time I tried to launch a terminal through the
launcher. same thing.

I rebooted again. (As I don't have a toolbar when Compiz dies, I had
to power off and power on). This time it seemed that Compiz did not
even start - no toolbar at all.

Ctl+Alt+F2 gave me a terminal session and I installed Xubuntu-desktop.
(I was quite proud of myself being able to do that using the command
line actually - I have learned something!) I rebooted into Xubuntu but
it had the same problem - no toolbars. Perhaps this means that the
problem is more basic than Compiz.

Fortunately I have a "Run Nautilus" icon on my desktop and I was able
to get to fstab and restore it.

Now I am back with a system that runs perfectly but does not have my
home directory.

This is strange as it seems that there is something in my home
directory that breaks my GUI. Any ideas?

Bill

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