Restore all users

[YellowHammer]

I have my 'puter set up with
/
home
swap partitions

I have not had much success with dist upgrades and decided to perform a clean install of 9.1
I am et up as the default/admin. The other two users are not. How do I restore their desktops? My dektop returned as I left it and theirs are still there but can not be logged into.

[dibl]

Re: Restore all users

swap partitions

One swap partition is plenty.

The latest kernel for 9.10, which is 2.6.31-7, breaks a lot of stuff -- it won't even boot on my system. I'm thinking you would be better advised to install 9.04, if you're sure you need to re-install.

What errors do you see on dist-upgrade? Try this:

Ctrl-Alt-F1 to exit the GUI.

sudo /etc/init.d/kdm stop

to shut down the X server

sudo dpkg --configure -a

to make sure your package manager has its act together

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

When the upgrade process is completed,

sudo shutdown -r now

Then, after your system reboots, log in and see what you have. Are there errors? Please post them -- sometimes they tell what you need to do.

[YellowHammer]

Re: Restore all users

no errors at all. flawless install on amd64. Swap partitions was a typo. just one

[claydoh]

Re: Restore all users

i think that with the live installer, you can only create one user, so you just need to recreate the user accounts after the install. you may need to check the uid for each other user so that the newly created accounts match up to the old ones . kuser can show you that info. If you create the user accounts in the same order as they were originally created, the uid's should be the same.

if not, it is pretty quick and easy to make the ownership of the home dir match the user:

sudo chown -Rv <username> /home/<username>

this ownership/permissions difference that can occur between installs is probably why they cannot log in to those user accounts