Re: issues logging in after fresh install fc16

2012-02-18 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/18/2012 08:54 AM, Tim wrote: After brief playing around with it, I decided it was an incredibly stupid interface, and made use of the gnome fallback option, to give me a Gnome 2 kind of interface. But it's still overblown and sluggish. If you find Gnome, even in fallback mode to be slugg

Re: issues logging in after fresh install fc16

2012-02-18 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/18/2012 07:27 AM, Genes MailLists wrote: Most people have /home being a separate partition ... I'm not sure I really understand your setup, but of course backups are good - however there should be no need to re-copy/home/ if you keep it a separate partition. It will also keep all the se

Re: issues logging in after fresh install fc16

2012-02-18 Thread Genes MailLists
On 02/18/2012 01:42 PM, les wrote: > > Hi, gene, > I know, and I even had a separate disk for the users for a while, which > I really like using. I can unplug it for some work, or even substitute > it for some security type work, but some time ago I had a problem with > the disk not mounti

Re: issues logging in after fresh install fc16

2012-02-18 Thread les
On Sat, 2012-02-18 at 10:27 -0500, Genes MailLists wrote: > On 02/17/2012 10:59 PM, Les Howell wrote: > ... > > 1. back up all users using TAR. > ... > > 7. copy the splits back to /home , use cat to rejoin them and tar -xf. > > : all good user directories fully restored. > > Most people have /h

Re: issues logging in after fresh install fc16

2012-02-18 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2012-02-18 at 02:05 -0800, Les Howell wrote: > And for those who don't like the new format of the desktop +1 to > get to a specific application before with a right click and a pull > down, it is replaced with two clicks, a scroll some more clicks and > other handwaving of one sort or an

Re: issues logging in after fresh install fc16

2012-02-18 Thread Genes MailLists
On 02/17/2012 10:59 PM, Les Howell wrote: ... > 1. back up all users using TAR. ... > 7. copy the splits back to /home , use cat to rejoin them and tar -xf. > : all good user directories fully restored. Most people have /home being a separate partition ... I'm not sure I really understand your s

Re: issues logging in after fresh install fc16 SOLVED!!

2012-02-18 Thread les
On Sat, 2012-02-18 at 02:05 -0800, Les Howell wrote: > > > --- On Fri, 2/17/12, Tim wrote: > > From: Tim > Subject: Re: issues logging in after fresh install fc16 > To: "Community support for Fedora users" > >

Re: issues logging in after fresh install fc16

2012-02-18 Thread Les Howell
--- On Fri, 2/17/12, Tim wrote: From: Tim Subject: Re: issues logging in after fresh install fc16 To: "Community support for Fedora users" Date: Friday, February 17, 2012, 8:29 PM On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 19:59 -0800, Les Howell wrote: > NEW problemĀ  ON login I get the Fedora v

Re: issues logging in after fresh install fc16

2012-02-17 Thread Tim
On Fri, 2012-02-17 at 19:59 -0800, Les Howell wrote: > NEW problem ON login I get the Fedora version of BSD "Oh No! > something has gone wrong" Only option button is logout. This is not > helpful... Agreed. > Also get a SELinux alert but of course can't read it due to the > logout button scree

issues logging in after fresh install fc16

2012-02-17 Thread Les Howell
OK, I have never had such issues I have read and tried many things on users groups, on various mailing lists and my good friend google, but so far it has been 12 hours with no joy... The process I followed is: 1. back up all users using TAR. 2. segment the tar files using split to get severa