* Julien Olivier <julo@xxxxxxxxxx> [04-Apr-2004 19:56]: > On Sun, 2004-04-04 at 18:35, Michael A. Peters wrote: > > Are they any "gotcha's" related to using the same /home partition for > > both FC2 and FC1? > > > > I had a working FC1 with /home in its own partition. Then I installed > FC2 (I didn't do an update) and kept my /home un-formated. > > And it was a catastrophe :( GDM complained that it couldn't see my home > dir (/home/julien), which, really, existed. > > I then re-installed FC2 but disabled selinux (through the firewall > configuration tool in anaconda), and now everything is OK. > > From what i understand, you have to, somehow, make selinux aware of your > existin /home partition. But I don't have any clue on how to do it, or > even if it's really where the problem lies. http://people.redhat.com/kwade/fedora-docs/selinux-faq-en/ says: " Q:. I installed Fedora Core on a system with an existing /home partition, and now I can't log in. A:. Your /home partition is not labeled correctly. You can fix this by labeling /home correctly: /usr/sbin/setfiles /etc/security/selinux/file_contexts /home You will need to have the policy-sources package installed to use setfiles. Alternately, you can use the fixfiles utility to relabel /home without having to install policy-sources. " -- Leonid Mamtchenkov. http://www.leonid.maks.net
