2008/7/9 Keith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Once again thanks to everyone, particularly Lucy, for all the replies
> and suggestions with regard to my problem.
>
> Unfortunately I didn't seem to be getting anywhere so eventually I
> decided to bite the bullet and reinstall although I accept that that's
>
Once again thanks to everyone, particularly Lucy, for all the replies
and suggestions with regard to my problem.
Unfortunately I didn't seem to be getting anywhere so eventually I
decided to bite the bullet and reinstall although I accept that that's
bnot the ideal solution. Anyway, things are
On 08/07/2008, Keith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I cut and pasted the commands from your original email. I was able to
> add the second user, but then the following occurred:-
>
> sudo cp -a /home/valerie-tmp/ /home/valerie
>
> cp: cannot create special file
> `/home/valerie/valerie-tmp/.goo
Lucy wrote:
Can you copy and paste the
> exact commands you typed and the errors you received please?
Hello Lucy,
Again, thanks for the reply.
I cut and pasted the commands from your original email. I was able to
add the second user, but then the following occurred:-
sudo cp -a /home/valerie-
On 08/07/2008, Keith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks again for all for the suggestions.
>
> I tried Lucy's first and was indeed able to re-create the original
> user2. Unfortunately, however, I was unable to sudo cp -a the original
> files back into user2's home. Furthermore the permission
Thanks again for all for the suggestions.
I tried Lucy's first and was indeed able to re-create the original
user2. Unfortunately, however, I was unable to sudo cp -a the original
files back into user2's home. Furthermore the permissions (for me the
bane of Linux) have been altered. Even tryi
2008/7/7 Philip Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 2008/7/7 Lucy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> So, in a terminal type:
>> sudo mv /home/user2 /home/user2-tmp
>>
>> Then go to "System->Administration->Users and Groups" to add user2.
>>
>> Then do:
>> sudo cp -a /home/user2-tmp/ /home/user2
To answer Lucy's qu
2008/7/7 Lucy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> So, in a terminal type:
> sudo mv /home/user2 /home/user2-tmp
>
> Then go to "System->Administration->Users and Groups" to add user2.
>
> Then do:
> sudo cp -a /home/user2-tmp/ /home/user2
What I would do is
sudo rm -r /home/user2
sudo mv /home/user2-tmp /home/
On 07/07/2008, Keith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestions.
>
> I do have root access and I had already tried sudo passwd and I get
> the response "passwd: unknown user (user2)". That is why I had also
> tried "System->Administration->Users and Groups" to add (user2). Th
Thanks for the suggestions.
I do have root access and I had already tried sudo passwd and I get
the response "passwd: unknown user (user2)". That is why I had also
tried "System->Administration->Users and Groups" to add (user2). The
response to that was "Home directory already exists".
Jason Liquorish wrote:
> Keith wrote:
>> I've managed to get myself into a bit of a pickle and would appreciate
>> any help.
>>
>> I have a non-Windows machine with two separate hard drives. Ubuntu is
>> on one and Kubuntu on the other, They are both partitioned with home
>> directories on a s
Keith wrote:
> I've managed to get myself into a bit of a pickle and would appreciate
> any help.
>
> I have a non-Windows machine with two separate hard drives. Ubuntu is
> on one and Kubuntu on the other, They are both partitioned with home
> directories on a separate partition. There is a
On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 8:19 PM, Keith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Friday a problem arose with the Kubuntu distribution which I couldn't
> resolve myself, so I decided to install v. 8.04.01, especially as it now
> included KDE 4. All seemed to be OK until I tried to boot up Ubuntu
> which stall
2008/7/6 Keith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>[snip]
> However, when the other user tried to log in, Ubuntu would not accept
> the password. I googled extensively but the only remedy I could find
> was to recover my own password, which was not applicable here and didn't
> help recover, or change, the passw
Keith wrote:
> included KDE 4. All seemed to be OK until I tried to boot up Ubuntu
> which stalled and needed a CTRL-D to get to the desktop. Not to worry,
> I thought, I'll reinstall with 8.04.1 which proceeded normally.
> However, when the other user tried to log in, Ubuntu would not accept
I've managed to get myself into a bit of a pickle and would appreciate
any help.
I have a non-Windows machine with two separate hard drives. Ubuntu is
on one and Kubuntu on the other, They are both partitioned with home
directories on a separate partition. There is an additional user on
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