XPost: alt.os.linux.mageia   
   From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com   
      
   On 07/07/2014 07:39 PM, Doug Laidlaw wrote:   
   > On Sun, 06 Jul 2014 22:54:12 -0700   
   > Bobbie Sellers  wrote:   
   >   
   >> The Mageia installer left /home alone so that the backup   
   >> work I did was not needed and it only took an hour and a half.   
   >   
   > Most distros will leave /home alone if it is on a separate partition.   
   > You may have to check that they will.   
      
   	Yes well checking on it can take as long as backing up every   
   bit of content to another partition which is what i did then went back   
   and fixed messes.   
   	I had to re-install Kubuntu at one point and told it to leave   
   home alone.  I did not trust it completely and lost very little but time.   
   >   
   > If I am trialling a radically different distro, I format /home as   
   > well.  One thing to watch is user ID numbers. Mageia starts user IDs at   
   > 500, many other distros start at 1000.  It was pointed out a while   
   > back that the system looks at the number, not the name.  So if you look   
   > at a listing in /home with ll, it may show the owner as 1000 instead of   
   > your username.  In my case, it was giving the rtkit number to mysql,   
   > and similar.  BTW, rtkit isn't rootkit, it is realtimekit.   
      
   	Mageia 4.1 x86_64 and my number is 1000.  Guest is about 61000.   
   >   
   > Another thing I haven't seen before: most distros give you your own   
   > group with your name.  One I looked at didn't do that.  Instead, it put   
   > everybody in the "users" group.  That meant that a command-line change   
   > of group didn't work until I found out what was going on.   
      
   	That was how Mandriva 2010.2 did it.   
   	I am having trouble suddenly accessing MCC from my user space.   
      It rejects my root password and so do some other tools.   
      
   	I logged out and came back via the option at login to use Fail Safe   
   which opens a terminal window from which the password worked and   
   I was able to access MCC.  Finally that window locked and I used   
   Cntrl-Alt-Backspace to get back to the log in.  Then I had to reselect KDE   
   to get back to a work space where I could check my e-mail and Usenet.   
      
   	Still getting the authentication failure after I tried to open   
   MCC again.   
   	I wanted games and used the software feature of MCC to try to get them   
   but it turned out that the partition where they should go is   
   short of space.   
      
   	More fun. Gotta go to bed soon.   
      
   	bliss   
      
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