Moving from Centos to Fedora 9

[David Kramer]

Jerry Feldman wrote, On 09/16/2008 07:23 PM:
> Just as a follow up, after backing up everything to an external drive to
> be safe, I installed Fedora 9. At first things worked well, but
> somewhere a long the line things got very screwed up and for some reason
> some setting I had on the desktop caused the window manager to exit. I
> also got some kind of a kernel error than does not appear in dmesg.
> Normally I would trouble shoot, but I was in a hurry so I simply
> reinstalled. The second installation went well, but when I tried to log
> into my user, it hung both in GNome and KDE. I delete my user, and
> created an empty user for myself and then simply moved everything from
> my home directory back in. This was more of a case where I screwed
> something up. I've been there before with KDE on SuSE.  At the current
> time, I am happy with Fedora 9.

Remember that everything under the covers uses uid, not username.  So
when you copy files over from a previous install, you need to make sure
you're using the same uid for the same username, or chmod -R everything
to the new user.