In the past I always backed up my home directory to external storage before clean installs of each milestone. I use a separate “/Common” directory for documents, music, pictures, etc. Then create symlinks to those in the home directory.
M5 has changed the initial UID from 500 (M4 & prior) to 1000. Took me a while to figure that out after not being able to boot into the users gui after restoring the home directory (didn’t want to loose all my settings).
My question, is there a way to set the initial UID during the install process? I either missed or failed to read anything about this in the release notes.
Also, could someone tell me where the users settings from “configure desktop” are stored? Restoring my home directory only restores some of those settings.
The first user uid has been 1000 for many releases now, the change was sometime around 10.x I think. You probably had a home directory from long ago that hasn’t been updated. Probably the best thing is to chown all your old files to uid 1000.
On 12/27/2010 04:06 PM, tommyttt wrote:
>
> In the past I always backed up my home directory to external storage
> before clean installs of each milestone. I use a separate “/Common”
> directory for documents, music, pictures, etc. Then create symlinks to
> those in the home directory.
>
> M5 has changed the initial UID from 500 (M4 & prior) to 1000. Took me
> a while to figure that out after not being able to boot into the users
> gui after restoring the home directory (didn’t want to loose all my
> settings).
The initial UID has been 1000 in openSUSE since 10.3 (at least), and probably
longer. I know this because I set up my NFS server using another distro that
started at 500 (It was either Fedora or Ubuntu). Since then I have created a
particular account at install time, and then gone back to add a second, which I
switch from the 1001 to 500 in the creation GUI. I then make the second account
the default login.
Thanks for the replies, gentlemen. Indeed, going back and looking at previously backed-up files, they are 1000. Guess in my mental infirmity I must have changed the UID in M4 for some reason. The problem is now fixed and things back to normal.