On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 14:33 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Michael Sullivan <msulli1...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > A week ago I got in a 1 TB external hard drive. I set it up for use > > with MythTV. It worked fine. So now I wanted to turn the old myth > > partition into my /home filesystem. I reformatted it (mke2fs > > -j /dev/sda6), I mounted it on /mnt/floppy and moved my directories > > in /home over to it, then unmounted it, mounted it on /home and logged > > in. Now almost every time I do anything I get a notice saying that > > gnome-settings-daemon has crashed. I don't even kwow if it will let me > > send this email, but I've attached the bug report. Please somebody help > > me! > > Were you logged in as a user when you moved the /home directories? > Maybe there were some open files that got messed up... >
I logged out of gnome, shut down xdm, and then logged in as root to move /home.