[oclug] Strange Fedora problem

[Jamon Camisso]

root wrote:
> Hi Jamon!
> 
> the matter gets worse and worse!
> 
> I did what you said and now all I get is an error message that
> permission has been denied to create ~/.gnome2 and ~/.bash_profile
> 
> So, there is no way I can get back into my user account. But, yes, I can
> make a new one and get into it OK.
> 
> I even removed a line from my .bash_profile file which said unset
> USERNAME
> but this had no effect whatsoever!
> 
> I am doing an absolute "no no" in doing this from my root but I'm not
> going to stay here for long! I'll create yet another user and go there!
> 
> Cheers (or, not so cheery actually!)

If you want to keep your directory and userid, you could backup all your 
files and settings, then rm -rf $Home/* :) Careful with that one though...

Sounds like your plan to make a new user will work well though, so I'd 
go with that, especially if you haven't customized things much.

R.e. CentOS and RHEL, they're a little out of date compared to FC5. If 
you get things working I'd stick with it for now, though of course 
Debian testing is always going to be the best :p