[ale] Problems w/ users under CentOS 5.3 ....

[William A. Mahaffey III]

On 09/01/09 19:41, Jim Kinney wrote:
> Ah. different version of gnome doesn't like the existing gnome
> configuration (gnome is grumpy like that!).
>
> Set the box to boot to runlevel 3. reboot. log in as the user with the
> gnome problem at the text screen login prompt.
>
> mv .gnome2 .gnome2.old
> mv .gnome .gnome.old
> mv .gnome2_private .gnome2_private.old
>
> now run startx and X will start and gnome will recreate it's startup configs
>
> set runlevel back to 5 in /etc/inittab and reboot.
>
> If that fails, go back to runlevel 3 mode and check perm on the user .
> files (check all files for that matter!) If selinux is set to
> "enforcing targeted" (the default in CentOs 5.3) the selinux
> attributes are likely missing in the old /home. Easiest fix is (as
> root)
> touch /.autorelabel
> reboot
> The next boot may take a bit of time (an extra 5-10 minutes depending
> on speed) but the default selinux perms will be applied properly.
>
> If you just don't care, edit /etc/selinux/config and change to
> permissive from enforcing and to targeted from strict.
>    



Hmmmmm .... Question: Can I do that touch as 'touch /home/.autorelabel' 
to confine the damage & time spent, or must it be /.autorelabel ? TIA ....


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