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From: Michael Sullivan <msulli1355@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [SHOULD BE gnome-settings daemon failed]
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:51:12
Message-Id: 1237985467.17396.4.camel@camille.espersunited.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] [SHOULD BE gnome-settings daemon failed] by Peter Humphrey
1 On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 10:17 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote:
2 > On Tuesday 24 March 2009 20:19:59 Michael Sullivan wrote:
3 > > On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 14:33 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote:
4 > > > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Michael Sullivan <msulli1355@×××××.com>
5 > wrote:
6 > > > > A week ago I got in a 1 TB external hard drive. I set it up for use
7 > > > > with MythTV. It worked fine. So now I wanted to turn the old myth
8 > > > > partition into my /home filesystem. I reformatted it (mke2fs
9 > > > > -j /dev/sda6), I mounted it on /mnt/floppy and moved my directories
10 > > > > in /home over to it, then unmounted it, mounted it on /home and
11 > > > > logged in. Now almost every time I do anything I get a notice saying
12 > > > > that gnome-settings-daemon has crashed. I don't even kwow if it will
13 > > > > let me send this email, but I've attached the bug report. Please
14 > > > > somebody help me!
15 > > >
16 > > > Were you logged in as a user when you moved the /home directories?
17 > > > Maybe there were some open files that got messed up...
18 > >
19 > > I logged out of gnome, shut down xdm, and then logged in as root to
20 > > move /home.
21 >
22 > Just to ask the obvious: you don't have both partitions mounted on /home do
23 > you? And you have changed /etc/fstab to suit the new layout?
24 >
25
26 camille ~ # grep home /etc/fstab
27 /dev/sda7 /home ext3 noatime
28 0 1
29 baby:/home/michael/camera /mnt/Pictures nfs bg,hard 0 0
30 baby:/home/michael/BizarreBits /home/michael/BizarreBits/ nfs
31 bg,hard 0 0
32
33 My original /home directory was on /dev/sda6, which is my /