From: Thomas Danckaert <post@thomasdanckaert.be>
To: ludo@gnu.org
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: install experience
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2017 08:51:34 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170124.085134.305135419361419038.post@thomasdanckaert.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lgu1vp1v.fsf@gnu.org>
From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
Subject: Re: install experience
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 15:17:16 +0100
>> - When I tried to login as non-root user for the first time, my
>> home
>> directory was not there, and I was sent back to the login
>> screen. I
>> logged in as root and created/chown'ed the home directory
>> myself.
>> Unfortunately, I have no further information here, either.
>
> Could it be that /home is a separate partition? There’s a bug
> waiting
> to be fixed in this area: <https://bugs.gnu.org/21108>.
Yes, that looks like the same issued. Indeed, I noticed today that a
/home/thomas directory got created on my root partition (I suppose it
then somehow hidden when my home partition is mounted at /home).
>> Now, the system works fine, though I'll try to tweak it for better
>> touchpad support, graphics acceleration (I'm gnome3 is currently
>> unusable) and sharper fonts. Those things worked better when it
>> was
>> running Ubuntu, though I suspect some of that was due to non-free
>> driver blobs etc.
>
> If you find ways to tweak it, let us know how we can improve the
> default
> settings.
Coming from Ubuntu, I don't have any experience fiddling with these
things, but I'll do my best ;-)
Thomas
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2017-01-23 10:05 install experience Thomas Danckaert
2017-01-23 14:17 ` Ludovic Courtès
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