[LUNI] [HELP] X Problem Since Update

[Robert Smith]

Arun Khan <knura at yahoo.com> wrote:In most cases, when the application is a minor release, this should not 
be a problem.  



Each distro has it's own scheme for uid/gid.  You need to "remap" the 
uid/gid, when you preserve /home and install a different distro. 

After installing the distro you could have done (as root):
 # cd /home
 # chown -R : ./username
where username and groupname are the newly created account and group.

-- Arun Khan
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Thanks for the advice on minor releases. The tip about reclaiming /home/username is definitely a "keeper." Thanks a bundle! I will surely keep this in mind for future reference.

Rob Smith