Re: Basil's question (move home to separate partition and restore working system)

2014-09-16 Thread Nio Wiklund
Den 2014-09-16 20:18, Basil Fernie skrev: > Frankly, I'm depressed. If simple problems like these have evaded the > 14.04 testers for so long, how ready is 14.10 going to be? Really, I > would volunteer to join the team of testers, but I'm put off by the > reports that it will be incompatible with

Re: Basil's question (move home to separate partition and restore working system)

2014-09-16 Thread Basil Fernie
Hi Israel, My apologies for mislaying your original e-mail somewhere in the chaos of parallel-but-not-equal mailer installations and a non-functional printer installation on the failed Lu14.04 attempt. Andre's implied rebuke is taken as deserved. I hope he will remember that when his memory is

Re: Basil's question (move home to separate partition and restore working system)

2014-09-13 Thread Andre Rodovalho
Yes Israel already said... To be sure, you could simply remove all hidden files and folders on your /home and then reinstall Lubuntu 14.04 pointing that partition as your home... 2014-09-13 8:43 GMT-04:00 Israel : > Hi Basil! > I highly sugegst youtry my initial suggestion > open a tty (Ctrl+Al

Re: Basil's question (move home to separate partition and restore working system)

2014-09-13 Thread Israel
Hi Basil! I highly sugegst youtry my initial suggestion open a tty (Ctrl+Alt+F1) login, then: sudo mv ~/.config ~/config_backup sudo mv ~/.cache ~/cache_backup then sudo restart lightdm or alternatively sudo stop lightdm sudo start lightdm Then it should work however some of your applica

Re: Basil's question (move home to separate partition and restore working system)

2014-09-13 Thread Basil Fernie
Hi Israel, No problem with the new thread, Just wasn't expecting to see my name up in lights so soon in life... Your suggestions were probably good, but I had this problem with 20GB spare to hold 3 versions of a 30GB folder... I followed up the links which were again addressing a slightly

Basil's question (move home to separate partition and restore working system)

2014-09-10 Thread Israel
Hi Basil, I wanted to move this to a new thread, so it would be easier to spot in people's inbox :) OS/2 eh? I remember using that for a while. Unfortunately that was during the time of MS' big move to control the market. And well, they did. They are still trying to, however the advent of the