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If not testing a clean install of an RC (or Beta) please post here. Do not clutter up the thread that is for those testing.

If you count saving home, I wound up with two panels, mine and Warrens and Warrens was under mine and caused problems because I could not see it and did not know that it was there until I made my panel translucent.

I would count anything that is not a 'clean install without saving home' as needing to be in this thread.
Anything else belongs here.

I will note that saving home is a feature of Mepis and troubles should be noted. But they need to be here. Testing an OS is pretty one-dimensional. It's that way to lessen the complicity of extraneous causes being reported as problems when they aren't.

So please, please put such here. They are evidently need to be addressed and they are real problems. They just don't need to be included in a testing thread.

I have never seen this before. With a fresh install of M11 RC2, booted the first time. Upgraded what was available, mepis.init, .config, .system, and installed the PAE kernel. Upon next reboot could not get to the desktop, with an error at kdm login of, paraphrasing, cannot get to home from /.

I booted with root and saw the /home in the root directory did not contain my home. So I created another user and transferred the previous config files from the fresh install, they were still on the drive, to the new home. But had numerous errors. So just reinstalled.

It was not the Mepis upgrades because upgrading again did not reproduce the problem. I can only point to the PAE kernel install, although I cannot see how that could cause a problem and I installed it successfully on an earlier Mepis install.

Comments?

You reinstalled the video driver?

No. But I installed three PAE packages, the kernel image, kernel headers and nVidia kernel module. That was all that was necessary when I previously successfully installed the PAE kernel. The install took care of grub, initrd and the video driver module,

Had you used dropbox on that install? I've seen where dropbox alters fstab. viewtopic.php?f=8&t=29750&p=267263 In my case /home was on the root partition and I was able to login (though I did get some erratic behaviour afterwards). Other people in that thread I think had a separate partition for /home and weren't able to login at all.

Yes I had installed dropbox, forgot about that, and I had a separate home partition. I did not look at fstab, however. So the solution with a dropbox install would be to uncomment that partition in fstab I would presume.

The last one of those I saw was due to errors in fstab.

Yes, I just installed dropbox and it comments out the home partition, I have no idea why. Not a good idea to have a package render your system unusable. Uncommenting it corrects the problem.