* Julien Olivier <julo(a)altern.org> [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.
"
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