[manjaro-dev] [Manjaro Linux Support] Problem with installation of Manjaro 0.8.9, Editions: XFCE, Openbox

[Rob McCathie]

I don't really see that there's any bug to fix.

As Jonathon said, the current behaviour is non-destructive, which is good.

The user states they think the permissions are wrong (which if their
existing files aren't owned by UID 1000, then yeah, it very likely
won't work).

He is trying to do something fairly advanced. New users won't be doing this.

Regards,
Rob



On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 8:48 AM, J Fernyhough <j.fernyhough at gmail.com> wrote:
> To me this is a better outcome than clobbering existing files (which I
> think was previous behaviour). I don't think the installer should be
> overwriting existing files in a user's home directory.
>
>
> Jonathon
>
> On 5 March 2014 21:40, Philip Müller <philm at manjaro.org> wrote:
>> Has someone a clue?
>>
>> Am 05.03.2014 13:55, schrieb Galin:
>>>
>>> From: Galin <topgun at next5.org>
>>> Subject: Problem with installation of Manjaro 0.8.9, Editions: XFCE,
>>> Openbox
>>>
>>> Message Body:
>>> I had a problem while installing Manjaro 0.8.9, Editions: XFCE, Openbox.
>>> The problem is that during the installation I'm using an existing separate
>>> /home partition. The problem with that is that the manjaro preconfigured
>>> file in /etc/skel/ are never copied into my /home directory and thus I'm
>>> left with vanilla xfce or vanilla openbox.
>>> I believe this problem occurs because the files in my /home directory are
>>> assigned to my old user (from the previous install) and the user is not able
>>> to write into the directory. I'm not sure though.
>>>
>>> Eventually I installed manjaro without separate /home directory and after
>>> that copied the created conf files into my old /home partition, edited fstab
>>> and I'm not happy and running manjaro WITH separate partition for /home.
>>>
>>> I hope you can resolve this problem. While it's not tough to deal with, it
>>> is definitely NOT user-friendly anymore, when it occurs.
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> -g
>>>
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