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On Tuesday 24 March 2009 20:19:59 Michael Sullivan wrote: |
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> On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 14:33 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: |
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> > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Michael Sullivan <msulli1355@×××××.com> |
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> > > A week ago I got in a 1 TB external hard drive. I set it up for use |
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> > > with MythTV. It worked fine. So now I wanted to turn the old myth |
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> > > partition into my /home filesystem. I reformatted it (mke2fs |
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> > > -j /dev/sda6), I mounted it on /mnt/floppy and moved my directories |
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> > > in /home over to it, then unmounted it, mounted it on /home and |
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> > > logged in. Now almost every time I do anything I get a notice saying |
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> > > that gnome-settings-daemon has crashed. I don't even kwow if it will |
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> > > let me send this email, but I've attached the bug report. Please |
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> > > somebody help me! |
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> > |
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> > Were you logged in as a user when you moved the /home directories? |
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> > Maybe there were some open files that got messed up... |
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> I logged out of gnome, shut down xdm, and then logged in as root to |
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> move /home. |
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Just to ask the obvious: you don't have both partitions mounted on /home do |
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you? And you have changed /etc/fstab to suit the new layout? |
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Rgds |
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Peter |
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