Your session only lasted for less than 10 seconds

[AndyGreen]

Yes, everyone agreed the problem was in your home dir. I guess we should have suggested trying a new user (and so a new home directory) earlier. Congratulations on sorting out your problem.

[Raafi]

andy

question

why, if i am completely formatting a new installation, would there be any traces of my old name? (i am trying to learn the inners of my computer)

[AndyGreen]

Unless you do actually select to format a new filesystem, the "new installation" option in anaconda (the installer program) does NOT trash what was there before. In fact it actively looks at the RPMs you had installed in the previous install and will not replace ones that were newer than the ones on the install CDs!

Therefore /home/raafi survived the install completely intact, and whatever was wrong in there survived too. The howto you followed was about avoiding that situation for program files and libraries, so it moved the old ones out of the way, but it was not imagining problems in /home.

[Raafi]

well thanks andy, and everyone else, you've been a great help

i gotta get used to this fc3 name (i feel like r2d2)

[AndyGreen]

You're welcome. Nothing stops you renaming your old home dir

mv /home/raafi /home/raffi-dead

userdel raafi

and then

adduser raafi
passwd raafi

and you can be yourself again!

[Raafi]

i was thinking of that, but i figured the old stuff would come back and haunt me

you think this suggestion is the end-all to this saga?

i am at work now, so i am on windows xp, but when i get home i will try it,

but as i am thinking thru, what if it doesnt find a /home/raafi to mv? because it doesnt show any other users than fc3 (shudders, i hate that name)

[Raafi]

andy

says no such directory as /home/raafi

[AndyGreen]

ls -l /home

If that doesn't show a raafi directory then I guess you're ready to recreate your cyber-raafi since the old home dir is nuked or already moved.

[jamie112]

I had the same problem with Ubuntu, what i did was switch to a terminal (ctrl + alt + f1) login as root and make a new user (adduser), and that worked for me, (although i later switched back to fc3 ).

-Jamie