Re: Can't access /home dir after FC5 updates

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On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 21:06 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: 
> Personally I'm quite happy to be using FC2 most of the time, but after updates 
> for FC5 I can no longer access my home directory. Double click on it, a 
> couple of mouse pointer bounces, and then it craps out. Nothing. Zilch. 
> 
> Incidentally Konqueror behaves in the same way, but I can open Konsole, And 
> Kmail with no problems.
> 
> I had this situation last night, then rebooted this FC5 install, and then the 
> home directory opened, but today, no such luck.
> 
> Apart from this KDE seems to be working ok. I can watch TV on it, Gftp opens 
> ok, and the Superuser filemanager works ok. It appears to be a problem with 
> accessing the "home" directory, and "konqueror".
> 
> There is a ....sycoca command, but can't remember the syntax, or whether it 
> will fix this problem. Anyone one give me the full command for KDE? It may 
> work or not work, and there are menu items that were there before, and now 
> missing. SELinux is not enabled.
> 
> Personally I use FC2 on both machines, even though they are no longer 
> supported from Fedora Legacy. Apart from them being slow to boot, there are 
> no problems. Even FC1 still works ok, but I can't say the same for FC3, and 
> FC5.
> 
> I'm not trying to start any flames here, but from my personal viewpoint FC is 
> getting worse, rather than better.
> 
> All I want at the moment is to get access to my home directory on FC5, which 
> was accessable before the last lot of updates.
----
I'm gathering that you are using the 'same' home directory for the same
user whether booting from FC-2 or FC-5

That's gonna cause a bunch of issues with:
- KDE
- GNOME
- SELinux

even if you turn SELinux off in FC-5 and reboot, the versions of KDE &
GNOME are much newer in FC-5 than FC-2 and will likely cause a bunch of
problems if you try to use the same settings.

Suggest that you go into home directory and move 
mv ~/.gnome ~/.gnome-bak
mv ~/.gconf ~/.gconf-bak
mv ~/.gconfd ~/.gconfd-bak
mv ~/.kde ~/.kde-bak

and see if things don't work better. You probably will want to copy
***some*** of the application settings back in from the the -bak folders
that you created into the new folders created upon login/usage.

Craig

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