Bug#60290: boot-floppies: Failing when installing over rhat
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 01:22:36PM +0100, Tomas Pospisek wrote:
> No, user is not confused. The user has just lost the whole contents of
> /home without contributing himself to that fact in any other way
> than installing Debian/woody over an existing RH6.0. Btw. I'm not saying
> that there was a necessarely rm -rf /home executed - I'm saying that the
> --contents-- of /home were deleted. As I don't know how the installation
> routine is exactly going about it's business I can only guess how this
> happened - maybe when the existing /etc/passwd was overwritten with a
> new/default one, the system performed a sanity check and removed all files
> that belonged to unknown uids? Maybe it just went into home and saw there
> were directories from non-existing users? Maybe it did some "command
> --force" resulting in the loss of previously existing stuff by the same
> name? I don't know. I just know that -I- did -not- delete my /home/* and
> that home is -now-, after the woody install, -empty-.
>
> Close the bug as you wish - fact is, the install unfortunately did some
> very unnice stuff here - it might have vanished by miracle - or it might
> happen again.
> *t
if using a separate /home partition:
- you didn't *initialize* the home partition didn't you?
- you might want to check is whether /home is mounted or not..
dbootstrap requires some sanity checks to protect users from choosing the
wrong option.
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